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

From: allisonp <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon May 8 16:37:51 2000

>I can't forgive A.T. for the anti-assembly-language advocacy in his comp
arch


He he teaches it, when was he the author of commercial code? ;)

>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.


the licensing went from noncommercial personal use to a more open license
(details on line).

The book at about 60$, I got it and it's useful as was the cdrom( with
V2.0).
one of the other characters has a version that runs under dos and also
a version with real VM support. Theres IP support too. It's good where
small is desireable and swap (2.0) is not on the wish list.

Allison
Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 16:37:51 BST