From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:59:55 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11 questions In-Reply-To: References: <1453675247.12547.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: <0F00F232-16D0-43F8-B7EE-E0A45E5FE46C@ronnatalie.com> > On Jan 24, 2016, at 8:55 PM, David Ritchie wrote: > > 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2284 bytes Desc: not available URL: