Unix vs. VAX/VMS and Windows vs. Unix/Linux/BSD -- seems like we'veseen this before

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Mon May 8 15:58:31 2000

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 04:05:56PM -0400, allisonp_at_world.std.com wrote:
> If you want small, free and well documented Minix, unix like and
> 40mb is a full load with sources! runs on anything xt and up.
> Runs killer on a 1mb 386/16 I have.

I can't forgive A.T. for the anti-assembly-language advocacy in his comp arch
textbook, the guy makes absolutely no sense -- he "proves" the correctness of
his personal bias using an anecdotal example where he varies every parameter
at once and then tries to draw conclusions. But if Minix is "free" now, that
must mean that at least he changed his mind about the bizarre licensing rules
he used to have. IIRC it was ~$100 for the book+code and you could install
"a few" copies, whatever that means.

John Wilson
D Bit
Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 15:58:31 BST