'386 Unix Wars

[Piercarlo Grandi]

On 10 Jan 91 19:58:22 GMT, jtc at van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) said:

jtc> In article <KHAI.91Jan10082730 at snapper.adi.com> khai at adi.com (S.
jtc> Khai Mong) writes:

khai> In article <52585 at bigtex.cactus.org> james at bigtex.cactus.org
khai> (James Van Artsdalen) writes:

james> It's very expensive for a vendor to offer the man pages on line,
james> but it's also pretty popular with end users.

khai> Why should it be very expensive?

jtc> Licence fees to AT&T.

The reason for their being so high is A&T's relationship to Prentice
Hall.
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