Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!botter!star.cs.vu.nl!ast
From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.3a/b update, comp.sources.minix?
Keywords: newsgroup, problems, rijksdaalder
Message-ID: <1444@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 28 Sep 88 10:48:40 GMT
References: <2545@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <2545@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>The last thing I have to say is directed at Dr. Tanenbaum
In general, when you have a message for a small number of people, it is
considered polite to use mail, not news.  Since the request came via news
I might as well answer that way.

>I only ordered the disks, I have a plethora of OS books, and wasn't in a
>hurry to extend the collection.
Unfortunately, the manual is included in the book and one is expected to
read it.  We could have bound the software and book together (and in fact 
P-H now has such a package), but we thought it more flexible to make them
available separately.

[Discussion of physical security]
In general, I sort of regard "physical methods" such as using external
computers, xray machines, magnets, operator torture, bribing secretaries,
breaking into my office in the dead of night, and such like as bordering
on cheating, but I'll keep my word.  You get a rijksdaalder, which is a
Dutch coin currently retailing for about 47 Belgian Franks.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)