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From: steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: FLAME Concerning Apple's pricing of A/UX 2.0.
Message-ID: <6614@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 90 23:51:58 GMT
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Reply-To: steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <3089@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
)>You didn't have to pick A/UX for a platform.  If a cheapo 386 UNIX port
)>is what you want to pay for, that's what you should be using.  If you are
)>adding capabilities and value to your product by putting in on A/UX, then
)>what's the problem with paying more for it?
)
)I don't quite understand just what "cheapo 386 UNIX port" is being
)referred to.  To get what you get with A/UX 2.0, you'd end up paying at
)least $1K-$1.5K street price for ISC's 386/ix or SCO's XENIX or UNIX.
)Even ESIX, with the same services, is about $800, the same amount which
)is being kvetched about.
)
)The price for A/UX 2.0 seems pretty much in line with other products on
)the market on platforms in the same ballpark.
)
)-- 
)Steve Dyer
)dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
)dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu

ESIX.. did someone say ESIX??  It does not matter what you pay for ESIX
because you cant even get close to AUX with it.  ESIX running on a 20 mhz
386 (not sx) and 4 megs of ram is worthless.  I never knew just how good
AUX was until I used ESIX.  I hope it is not typical of 386 based UNIX.

BTW, I run AUX on an 020 macII and as MC Hammer says, "Cant touch this"

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What do these names have in common?
Bob, Flo, Augie, Curtis, Gordon, Rick, Rhonda, Meep, Bismark, Skip, Larson Petty
and Harry
	...did I miss any??			steveg@umd5.umd.edu