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In a recent article sandy47@UCSCO.UCSC.EDU writes:

>... I have read a multitude of repeated cycles of the
>same questions, mostly from new users like myself.  I have also seen the many
>responses from experts which are of a derisive nature toward these questions.

As being a new user for myself, and asking well-known questions various
times, I never ever got a derisive answer. Sometimes, I got nothing, but
normaly, there was someone, who told me what I wanted to know.

>...Level orient-
>ation seems like the better approach, since the new users would not then be
>interfering with the net bandwidth of the experts.  Questions which are have
>been repeated a number of times could be dealt with easily since that is why
>the group was formed.
>...
>How about some useful debate on the problems that have been troubling us all:
>
>	comp.os.minix.pc
>	comp.os.minix.st
>
>
>	comp.os.minix.new
>	comp.os.minix.exp

But what if all that derisive experts won't read the comp.minix.newcommers...?

>...(If you want to make a personal comment, send it to me by email,
>don't post it here.)

Sorry for that, but I think that this is a discussion forum.

In some other article HC Johnson  writes:

>I have previously posted a complete MINIX Kernel.
>I and others have surely added to the MINIX ST functionallity.
>Unfortunately, I would not call the resulting product "real, usable version"
>and we have tried.  It is a good teaching tool.

So this is the time, to thank you and all the others for it. Though it
doesn't work on my machine up to now, it has been interessting enough to
try it. And this is it, what I am doing it for.

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 Carsten Schiers              University of Hamburg, F.R. of Germany 
 schiers@                         University Hospital Eppendorf      
 imdm.uke.uni-hamburg.dbp.de  Dept. of Computer Science in Medicine  
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