AT&T clean UNIX

Mike Stefanik mike at bria.UUCP
Sun Jun 30 07:39:35 AEST 1991


In an article, rbraun at spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>dab at ubitrex.mb.ca (Danny Boulet) writes:
>>While reading my latest UNIX World last night, I noticed a small article
>>in the Newsbytes section that told of a company (Berkeley something or other)
>>which is hoping to have a clone of BSD UNIX ready for shipping in September.
>>
>_Allow_ them to sell it at this price, notably higher than any existing
>386-based Unix O/S products? 

I think that you're way off base here.  First of all, $2K is not "notably"
higher than other flavors of UNIX for the i386.  Consider AIX, when all
said and done, costs over $6K.

Remember, this distribution is with source, so you aren't going to have
any bogus multiuser limit and software security.  I would think that it would
include the networking goodies as well, so $2K is really not a bad deal at
all!  Consider also, those who line up early will be getting the same for $1K.

Could it finally be here?  Source once more?  Oh, to dream the impossible
dream ...

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