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> There is also the compiler.  The former ACK maintainer has said to us
> that it would be ok to throw the code on the street if someone puts it
> back into shape for distribution.  That will take some work.  (ACK is
> bigger than Minix.)  It would be nice if Minix is "open source" and
> available as source, from the first to the last byte.

Having the ACK compiler distributed with minix would be an excellent thing. Kudos
for this.

