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From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: FLAME Concerning Apple's pricing of A/UX 2.0.
Message-ID: <2352@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Jun 90 12:43:15 GMT
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In <364@three.MV.COM> cory@three.MV.COM (Cory Kempf) writes:

>If Apple wanted A/UX to be considered as a viable unix system, they really
>should (at the VERY LEAST) provide X/Motif as part of the system, and cut
>the price of the system as well (after all, people who are using A/UX are
>not using MacOS -- Why should they have to pay for it?)

We bought A/UX (140 systems to date) because we want to have
both: we want process protection so that programming mistakes
don't kill the whole operating system (we teach Computer
Science which involves lots of practical programming work), but
we want low cost quality document preparation that people can
use without us having to teach them (our teaching timtable is
already full).

With A/UX 1.1 we already get this is a slightly fudged way - we
do use X11 for our graphics courses and students can use it all
them time if they wish. However they don't seem to want to:
most of them would rather have access to MS-Word, SuperPaint
and HyperCard.

A/UX 2.0 will be even better, because they will have an easier
time manipulating their filestore and and they will be able to
run Word at the same time as developing their programs, reading
mail etc etc.


A/UX is a viable unix, but Unix is a commodity and there are
loads of places you could buy it from. What we want (and are
apparently about to get) is Unix plus all of the Macintosh stuff.
-- 

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