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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