lupic@micasa.UUCP (Jack Lupic) (09/15/90)
I'd like to get a copy of Minix Demo program but everyone keeps referring to c.b.i.p . What the heck is c.b.i.p. and could Minix be posted somewhere so it's accesible via email? Jack Lupic Scarborough,Ont-CANADA
ardai@teda.UUCP (Mike Ardai) (09/18/90)
In article <0uiiP1w162w@micasa.UUCP> torag!micasa!lupic writes:
-What the heck is c.b.i.p. and could Minix be posted somewhere
-so it's accesible via email?
c.b.i.p is comp.binaries.ibm.pc
/mike
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Jack Lupic writes: > I'd like to get a copy of Minix Demo program but everyone keeps > referring to c.b.i.p . > What the heck is c.b.i.p. and could Minix be posted somewhere > so it's accesible via email? > c.b.i.p == comp.binaries.ibm.pc c.b.i.p is a usenet group, specifically the parent of this one. if you got here, you probably came by way of c.b.i.p. -- Just another handy helpful hint from Flames-R-Us! -- Ed Felton | When you wish to produce a result by means of an uunet!sci34hub!eng3!felton | instrument, do not allow yourself to complicate it | -- Leonardo da Vinci Disclaimer: Even if I had opinions, who would want them???
reich@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dick Reichenbach) (10/08/90)
About a month ago someone requested that MINIX be posted on c.b.i.p This was supported by many people in c.b.i.p.d, but nothing ever happened. Is something still being done, or has the project been dropped? Another question is, I thought MINIX was commercial software that is, of course, protected by copyright. Well, is it or is it not commercial software? -=- DDDDDD k | reich@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu D D ` cccc k kk (^8 | Dick C. Reichenbach D D i c kkk | "Later Grizzley Dudes" DDDDDD i cccc k kk WAS HERE | - Bart Simpson
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (10/09/90)
In article <5417@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> reich@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dick Reichenbach) writes: | About a month ago someone requested that MINIX be posted on c.b.i.p | This was supported by many people in c.b.i.p.d, but nothing ever happened. | Is something still being done, or has the project been dropped? The posting requires that the moderator write a support program in his spare time. Andy sent me the demo disk as a 360k file, I have to write a program to read the file and write it to a disk in raw format (ie. it's not a DOS disk). Since I've been spending my time on other problems it hasn't gotten done. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
teexnma@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic) (10/10/90)
In article <5417@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> reich@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dick Reichenbach) writes: >About a month ago someone requested that MINIX be posted on c.b.i.p >This was supported by many people in c.b.i.p.d, but nothing ever happened. >Is something still being done, or has the project been dropped? > >Another question is, I thought MINIX was commercial software that is, of >course, protected by copyright. >Well, is it or is it not commercial software? Yes, it would be nice to know something about that. Can anyone shed some light into the matter? BTW, as far as I know, MINIX is Copyright to Prentice-Hall Inc, and as it says in the comment of the source code (in the Tanenbaum's book Operating systems): 'Permission is granted to make a limited number of copies of this software for educational or research purposes only' [end quote]. --- Janet: n.margetic@uk.ac.lon.ioe \ Nino Margetic Earn/Bitnet: n.margetic%ioe.lon.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet\ University College Internet: n.margetic%ioe.lon.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu \ London, UK Uucp: ...!mcvax!ukc!educ-isis!n.margetic \ (+44)(071)387-9300/x5313 --- -- Janet: n.margetic@uk.ac.lon.ioe \ Nino Margetic Earn/Bitnet: n.margetic%ioe.lon.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet\ University College Internet: n.margetic%ioe.lon.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu \ London, UK Uucp: ...!mcvax!ukc!educ-isis!n.margetic \ (+44)(071)387-9300/x5313
mpledger@cti1.UUCP (Mark Pledger) (10/10/90)
reich@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dick Reichenbach) writes: >About a month ago someone requested that MINIX be posted on c.b.i.p >This was supported by many people in c.b.i.p.d, but nothing ever happened. >Is something still being done, or has the project been dropped? >Another question is, I thought MINIX was commercial software that is, of >course, protected by copyright. >Well, is it or is it not commercial software? It is commercial software and at last count it costs $100.00. I know of a newer version that currently sells for approx. $150.00 or $200.00. It is a much more mature "mini" unix than coherent is. -- Sincerely, Mark Pledger -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CTI | (703) 685-5434 [voice] 2121 Crystal Drive | (703) 685-7022 [fax] Suite 103 | Arlington, DC 22202 | mpledger@cti.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------
millerje@holst.tmc.edu (jeffrey scott miller) (10/11/90)
In article <1990Oct9.181210.14211@ioe.lon.ac.uk> teexnma@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic) writes: >In article <5417@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> reich@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dick Reichenbach) writes: [text about MINIX] >>Well, is it or is it not commercial software? > >Yes, it would be nice to know something about that. Can anyone shed >some light into the matter? BTW, as far as I know, MINIX is Copyright >to Prentice-Hall Inc, and as it says in the comment of the source code >(in the Tanenbaum's book Operating systems): 'Permission is granted to >make a limited number of copies of this software for educational or >research purposes only' [end quote]. > MINIX is copyrighted. The version that was to be placed on CBIP was a demo version. What the difference between the demo version and the "real" version is, I don't know. _____________________________________________________________________________ | | | "NUKE THE UNBORN GAY WHALES!" | Jeff Miller | | | millerje@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu | | - graffiti | Fort Collins, Colorado | |_____________________________________________________________________________|
jpc@fctunl.rccn.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) (10/11/90)
In article <10129@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> millerje@holst.tmc.edu (jeffrey scott miller) writes: > > MINIX is copyrighted. The version that was to be placed on CBIP was a > demo version. What the difference between the demo version and the "real" > version is, I don't know. > Minix comes with it's own sources (programs AND os), the demo version has only the binaries (not all of them, I think) -- // Pina - If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister ?
mitchell (Bill Mitchell) (10/12/90)
I tried mail for this, but it bounced.
A week or so ago, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP posted that Andy
(Andy Tanenbaum, I presume) had sent him a minix demo disk
as a 360k file, and that it hadn't been posted because it
needed a support program to write it on a disk in raw format
(ie. it's not a DOS disk).
Minix doesn't use DOS disks, but it does use DOS-formatted disks.
Seems it should be easy enough to read in the 360k raw disk
image with debug.com, and then write it out to raw disk sectors
on a floppy.
362496 bytes/diskette
--------------------- = 708 sectors/diskette (0x2c4, that is)
512 bytes/sector
>debug
-n image.bin
-l
-w cs:100 0 0 2c4
-q
Not having the demo image I haven't tried this, but it seems like
it should work.MSR113@psuvm.psu.edu (Matt Richmond) (10/12/90)
In article <JPC.90Oct11093652@fogo.fctunl.rccn.pt>, jpc@fctunl.rccn.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) says: > >> MINIX is copyrighted. The version that was to be placed on CBIP was a >> demo version. What the difference between the demo version and the "real" >> version is, I don't know. >> > >Minix comes with it's own sources (programs AND os), the demo version >has only the binaries (not all of them, I think) Could you please post where this demo version is available? Is it on an anonymous FTP site by any chance? Thanks.. --Matt