[COFF] 386BSD released

[Tom Ivar Helbekkmo]

"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu> writes:

> Can you provide any references?  A quick Google Search doesn't turn up
> what you've described.

I was paraphrasing what Andy Tanenbaum says near the beginning of every
talk of his on MINIX 3 I've seen on Youtube.  But yeah, you're right:
while MINIX was open source, the C compiler was not, and was supplied in
binary form only.

> I can imagine marketing folks trying to confuse people by trying to
> claim that their product was something it was not --- such as from
> Prentice Hall, the publisher of the Minix book. 

I can't imagine them using the term "open source", either.  :)

-tih
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