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From: john@design.axis.fr (John H)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: bsd 4.4 for i386 - vaporware?
Message-ID: <326@design.axis.fr>
Date: 5 May 90 00:21:35 GMT
References: <113700004@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> <838@visenix.UUCP> <4292@plains.UUCP> <836@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
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In article <836@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dr. Srodawa) writes:
> >To have a copy of 4.4BSD the end user must have an AT&T source license.
> >If you already have it, you probably paid something like $60,000 for it.
> >If you >don't< already have it, you'll probably pay $100k to get it.  
> >How many customers can afford that?
> 
> Every university, that's all.  A university buys ONE license.  ALL 
> hardware systems on which the software will be run are registered at
> the same time at no additional cost.  We register every computer on
> campus.  Let's see.. $1200 over a thousand machines.. $1.20 per machine.

Huh?????   What the fuck???  How does $100k get turned into $1200???

Anyway, which university has 1000 386's with > 80Mb disk and the support
staff needed to put an unsupported operating system on each micro?

John Hughes

(I know you Yanks are stupid and rich, but THAT STUPID?  THAT RICH?)