Which Unix to Buy?
Bill Poitras
bill at polygen.uucp
Sun Sep 2 04:16:37 AEST 1990
In article <2743 at anomaly.sbs.com> mpd at anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>edevin at corwin.CCS.Northeastern.EDU (ted devin) writes:
>> - Price
>> I would like to make this a economical as possible. This is
>> only a minor point. A couple hundred dollars is 'minor'. Several
>> hundred to a thousand is not.
>
>If you think you're going to get off for a "few hundred" for a complete
>UNIX OS, then you're only kidding yourself. Most UNIX OS's (XENIX, ESIX, etc)
>run over $500 for the OS.
No, I think I wrote it wrong. What I meant to say was different. When I
wrote this article (by the way from a differnet Usenet site) the most
important issue is compatibility with SYSV. The next is price. If one
Unix (ISC for example) is as compatible as I want, and so is AT&T even a little
more so, then I will buy AT&T only if the price difference between them is
a few hundred dollars. I won't buy the slightly more compatible one if
its a few thousands dollars DIFFERENCE. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Also, I don't remember If I mentioned this, but my Unix must work with
WD1006-SVR2 (RLL) controller
Zeos 386SX Motherboard
Also I want experiences with compiling NNTP, Cnews, and a news reader.
Please include Unix type, ethernet board/TCP/IP sofware.
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