From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11 questions
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:59:55 -0500 [thread overview]
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> On Jan 24, 2016, at 8:55 PM, David Ritchie <deritchie at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> But wasn't a big part of the reason that DEC was successful in academia that PDP's were pretty heavily discounted vs. commercial pricing for similar compute power? Likewise with pricing for Unix?
>
> David Ritchie
UNIX was effectively free for Academics and at the beginning there really wasn’t any commercial licensing.
I don’t know if DEC offered a heavy academic discount or not. I can tell you they were cheaper than some of the options.
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2016-01-24 22:40 Norman Wilson
2016-01-25 1:55 ` David Ritchie
2016-01-25 1:59 ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2016-01-25 2:14 ` Clem cole
2016-01-25 11:29 ` Tony Finch
2016-01-25 13:25 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-25 16:18 ` Pete Turnbull
2016-01-25 19:37 ` Clem Cole
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2016-01-26 20:07 Doug McIlroy
2016-01-26 20:44 ` Clem Cole
2016-01-26 19:36 Doug McIlroy
2016-01-26 19:59 ` Warren Toomey
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2016-01-25 3:07 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 3:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 12:54 ` John Cowan
2016-01-25 13:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 13:49 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 16:00 ` John Cowan
2016-01-25 16:17 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-25 16:43 ` John Cowan
2016-01-25 1:11 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-25 1:30 ` Clem cole
2016-01-24 22:40 Norman Wilson
2016-01-25 0:23 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-24 18:56 Noel Chiappa
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2016-01-24 18:34 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-24 18:30 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-24 18:36 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-24 21:10 ` John Cowan
2016-01-25 0:11 ` scj
2016-01-25 0:36 ` Clem cole
2016-01-24 18:01 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-24 17:37 Mark Longridge
2016-01-24 18:49 ` Clem Cole
2016-01-25 3:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-25 5:32 ` Warren Toomey
2016-01-25 12:27 ` Clem cole
2016-01-25 13:38 ` Lawrence Stewart
2016-01-25 14:15 ` Clem Cole
2016-01-26 19:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-26 20:41 ` Clem Cole
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