Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!batcomputer!mha From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0 Great ... But who can afford it ? Message-ID: <9975@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 26 Mar 90 17:51:44 GMT References: <10312@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2629@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <5363@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <5437@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <2637@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) Organization: Baka Industries, Ithaca, New York Lines: 35 I think you're expecting too much. If you look at the price of getting A/UX 2.0 alone, it's actually quite reasonable. Consider that unix systems generally don't come with manuals, and the price of getting the manual set, if you feel you must have it, is no longer unreasonable; it's about the same as manuals for other unix implementations. The same with X-windows... that's an add-on almost anywhere you look. As far as manuals go, if you feel you need them, you can do what most colleges do, and get a single set of manuals to be shared among several or many users or systems. If you're not going to be the only person there who'll get A/UX, you can try to convince the school to get a set for public reference purposes. You've got your choice of medium, too... with floppies being the least expensive but least convenient. Getting A/UX on CD-ROM will most likely make the most sense, since rumor has it that you can run with the unchangable portion of the kernel right on the CD, so you'll only need about 20 megs worth of hard disk space (maybe even on a drive you already own) to run the thing. Also, considering you'll be able to access MacOS partitions at the same time, you don't need to worry about having two discrete hard drives in order to make this work. Mr. Brown had a good point... you, as a college student, are trying to end up with a high-powered unix workstation that most businesses and scientific users would consider high-end. While it's a great idea, and I empathize because I tried to keep up with the state of the art when I was in college, I think it's unfair to blame Apple for pricing their high-end products out of reach of a student budget. -- Mark H. Anbinder Memory Alpha BBS 607-257-5822 ** mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu BAKA Industries ** ...!batcomputer!memory!mha 200 Pleasant Grove Rd. H: (607) 257-3480 ******** Ithaca, NY 14850 W: (607) 257-2070 ******* "It's not safe out here." Q