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From: diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VPI Selects Commodore For Unix Platform
Message-ID: <13985@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 Aug 90 21:09:27 GMT
References: <4083@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: diamond@cbmvax (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <4083@crash.cts.com> vle@pnet01.cts.com (Vinh Le) writes:
>Will other university students be offered systems similar to the ones offered
>at VPI?  At around the same price?  Do these systems also run AmigaDOS 2.0, or
>are they strictly UNIX?
> 
>                                 Vinh Le
>
>
>UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd ucsd nosc}!crash!pnet01!vle
>ARPA: crash!pnet01!vle@nosc.mil
>INET: vle@pnet01.cts.com


I keep answering this, but I'll try again. The VPI deal is a part of our beta
process.  We have not yet announced the final products OR pricing...nor have
we said when we will. What we have said is that the deal with VPI is special,
and relates to:

1) Them making a significant committment to Commodore, even though the product
was still in beta....and

2) The fact that they REQUIRE all their incoming students (in CS) to purchase.

Questions about what the pricing will end up being for anybody, what the exact
configurations will be, what will run or be included in whatever bundles will
exist are premature, and will not be answered.  In fact, if somebody thinks 
they know the answers to any of these questions, they are wrong, since a good
bit is still not finally resolved.

As soon as it is annouceable......  it will be, and we will post it on the net.

Howard S. Diamond
Director of Education CBM