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From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Berkeley utilities...
Message-ID: <1990Jun08.153443.14702@uhura.neoucom.EDU>
Date: 8 Jun 90 15:34:43 GMT
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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This is't exactly .i386, but the question about Apple's A/UX
was mentioned.

A/UX is based on BSD 4.3, but includes most of AT&T Sys V release
2.2.  A/UX has a lot of nice stuff in it including TCP/IP, Streams,
etc.  Apple sys that A/UX meets the gov't FIPS specification and is
also POSIX compliant.

The price isn't too bad either.  If you already have the Mac SE-30
or Mac II with PMMU chip, the list price is $995 list for the tape
or floppy distribuiton, or $695 for the CD-ROM distribuiton.  The
HEPP-II pricing is $696.3 and $486.5 respectively.  Additional
licenses are $399 list, $239.3, HEPP-II, though there is some
additional paperwork hoops you have to jump though to get
additional licenses.  There is also something that is more or less
a madatory option, the A/UX accessory kit that is aroud $150 or so
and contains the "getting started" manuals.  The part that is a bad
deal is that the full documentation, programmers ref., etc is sold
separately and costs $800 ($560 HEPP-II).  Youch!  Still is pretty
reasonable relaetive to SCO Xenix, though.  The license is for 16
users.  (It'd be real interesting to see just how slow a Mac II
would crawl with 16 users on it :-) )

==Bill==
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Bill Mayhew  Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Rootstown, OH  44272-9995  USA    216-325-2511
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