Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdahl!starsoft!david From: david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What about Unix? Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 90 10:47:36 GMT References: <27021@athertn.Atherton.COM> <7612@gollum.twg.com> Lines: 20 >In article <7612@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes: >In article <27021@athertn.Atherton.COM> paul@athertn.Atherton.COM (Paul Sander) writes: >>- Source licensed from AT&T port of System V Release 4 (that is, Commodore >> has a source license and is doing right, but customers get binaries only) > >Yes, just like any Unix vendor the only thing they sell is the binaries. Not true. We (Amdahl Corp) offer source to our Unix (UTS). However, you must purchase a Unix System V source license from AT&T. Those cost around $50,000. Our CPUs cost in the millions of dollars, so $50,000 for the license isn't that expensive, compared to the cost of the machine. However, I doubt that many Amiga owners will be willing to fork out the money for a license! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- These words be mine. The company doesn't care, because I am the company! :-) Dave Lowrey | In Texas: {uhnix1,moray}!starsoft!david Starbound Software Group | The World: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (amdahl!dwl10) Houston, TX |