Request BSD 4.23!
Guy Harris
guy at gorodish.Sun.COM
Wed Jun 1 16:14:23 AEST 1988
> Is an AT&T-Toolchest source license ($200, last I checked) sufficient to get
> 4.3BSD sources?
Well, I'm not sure what an "AT&T-Toolchest source license" is (I thought the
individual programs in the Toolchest were individually licensed), but the
answer is "no" regardless of what it is, unless it is a complete UNIX source
license. 4.3BSD is derived from AT&T licensed UNIX/32V code, so you need a 32V
or better UNIX source license to get 4.3BSD source.
> (If so, 4.3BSD is extremely affordable... unless, of course, that $1500 was
> off by an order of magnitude. Maybe THAT's where AT&T *really* screwed up.)
The $1500 is, I presume, the prices for an educational source license (if so,
inflation strikes - I seem to remember that S3 was somewhere around $600, and
V7 was closer to $100), or for the Nth add-on commercial source license for
some sufficiently large value of N. I think the price for a commercial UNIX
source license is in the $65K range for the first machine.
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