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- From: shane@cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough)
- Subject: Re: It's Time for a Shakedown (was Re: A few answers to Dell Unix FAQ)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.175355.14548@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, State U of NY at Stony Brook
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 17:53:55 GMT
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- Evan Leibovitch (evan@telly.on.ca) wrote:
-
- : In article <1993Jan6.143644.25001@crd.ge.com>
- : davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- : >If USL drops the runtime+net price of UNIX to <$100 they will start
- : >selling in volume. At current prices you don't get people buying UNIX to
- : >try it, they only buy it because they need it.
- :
- : Anyone that just wants to try UNIX won't go USL anyway, they'll go Linux
- : or BSD or Minix or Coherent. There are lots of real cheap options if
- : experimentation is all that's of interest.
-
- I disagree. At <$100, why wouldn't you choose 'real' UNIX over, say,
- Coherent which is also at $100? If the price was as low as Bill
- suggests, I'd have to agree with him. Perhaps this will all change if
- HURD or Linux ever gains the momentum that GCC has.
-
- Come to think of it, Sun unbundled their C compiler because so many
- people were using GCC, does that mean if GNU HURD gets as popular,
- Sun will drop SunOS too :-)?
-
- : When was the last time anyone can remember that an R4 vendor placed an
- : ad in a non-UNIX computer magazine? Even one?
-
- I've seen full page ads for Consensys SVR4.2 in PCWEEK. I think I've seen
- UNIVEL ads there as well, but I'm not as sure about that.
-
- : Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- : evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
-
- -Shane
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