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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Unix for a 386.
Message-ID: <36838@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 21 Aug 89 03:10:56 GMT
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Reply-To: madd@buit15.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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In article <2111@infmx.UUCP> aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney) writes:
|In article <36325@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@buit15.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
|>...
|>You can get a mostly-complete version of Interactive for about $1000.
|
|Where have you seen 386/ix for this price?  Please let me know.

I called them and told them I needed a 2-user development system with
networking (ie TCP/IP) and X11R3.  They told me that they sold a
"Workstation" package which should do what I need, and the cost was
something like $1100.  This omits troff and NFS, which will cost a bit
more.  It may also omit VP/ix but that's worthless to me so I didn't
ask.

I expect that by poking around retailers you can get better prices
than list, although I haven't tried it yet.

|Reference: Interactive 386/ix Suggested List Prices, 1/89.

Eight months is a long time in this business :-).

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com