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From: Will Rose cwr@crash.cts.com
Subject: Why?
Date: Fri,  1 Sep 1995 21:17:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950902011736.09WZn-IyMKaXBWpHifSqCiGlJREmh4IYlEOa6kjYZiU@z> (raw)

David Breneman (david.BReneman@mccaw.COM) wrote:
[...]
: process. The last AT&T OS I saw pricing on was SVR4 for the 3B2-R3-1050.
: It was $35,000.  Knocking two of those zeros off is quite an accomplishment.
: The more pedestrian SVR 3.2 for the 3B2-400 was $1500.  Plan 9 is still
: a bargain compared to that.  The people who buy those type OSes are the
: customers for Plan 9.  Not the people who judge an OS by how pretty
: the icons are.  It's a bargain.

Those were commercial licenses, and Plan 9's CDROM is *not* commercial.
I don't know what a commercial license is, but a lot more than $350.
Might be worth it tho', if it's not in the tens of thousands.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com







             reply	other threads:[~1995-09-02  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-09-02  1:17 Will [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1995-09-08  6:49 Why? dhog
1995-09-07 22:27 Why? mkc
1995-09-07 16:48 Why? Steve_Kilbane
1995-09-07 16:22 Why? Gary
1995-09-07 16:12 Why? Borja
1995-09-07 15:44 Why? presotto
1995-09-07 11:14 Why? Borja
1995-09-07  8:35 Why? Paul
1995-09-07  5:50 Why? Andrew
1995-09-07  5:12 Why? Gary
1995-09-06 20:24 Why? Borja
1995-09-06 19:52 Why? Paul
1995-09-06 19:21 Why? Steve_Kilbane
1995-09-06 18:11 Why? Dave
1995-09-06 17:29 Why? Dave
1995-09-04 15:14 Why? presotto
1995-09-03 18:23 Why? presotto
1995-09-03 18:17 Why? Andrew
1995-09-03  5:28 Why? Curt
1995-09-03  5:26 Why? Curt
1995-09-01 18:52 Why? Mike

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