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From: es2q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Erik Warren Selberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: FLAME Concerning Apple's pricing of A/UX 2.0.
Message-ID: <kaP8oqm00WI181eEox@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 90 04:57:26 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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In-Reply-To: <8@genco.uucp>

> A/UX won't be for everybody.  Those who just need a PC class machine
> will not need UNIX.  I can't imagine UNIX being used at home for the
> average user.
 
uh... no.  From just what I've seen at CMU & what's happening in some
places around the world, large-scale distributed computing networks
will most likely become a standard thing in the future -- which means
UNIX for the standard user.
 
PS - AT&T SysV ver 4.0 for $5000, yes, but that's for a network, not a
person.

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