Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Which Unix to Buy?
Message-ID: <15811@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 28 Aug 90 08:06:33 GMT
References: <815@corwin.CCS.Northeastern.EDU> <2743@anomaly.sbs.com>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <2743@anomaly.sbs.com> mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>edevin@corwin.CCS.Northeastern.EDU (ted devin) writes:
>>	- Price
>>	  I would like to make this a economical as possible.  This is
>>	  only a minor point.  A couple hundred dollars is 'minor'.  Several
>>	  hundred to a thousand is not.
>
>If you think you're going to get off for a "few hundred" for a complete
>UNIX OS, then you're only kidding yourself. Most UNIX OS's (XENIX, ESIX, etc)
>run over $500 for the OS.

At the risk of anticipating Ted's own response --

I think it's clear from context that he is saying a couple of hundred
dollars' DIFFERENCE in price is a minor point -- not that he expects to
pay a couple of hundred, total.

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