Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's?? Message-ID: <3686@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 1 Nov 90 16:33:54 GMT References: <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> <43029@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <2804@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1481@frapper.nsc.com> Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 17 In article <1481@frapper.nsc.com> my@frapper.UUCP (Michael Yip) writes: >After all this price arguments, did anyone include the cost of the >software (eg the UNIX OS and util) into the comparsion? With luck, within a year or so, they may be two industrial-strength free Unixes available - GNU, from the Free Software Foundation, and 4.4-detox (ie BSD "detoxified" - with the AT&T code removed). If this happens (and of course, we've all been looking forward to it for some time now...) it could greatly open up the market for unix workstations. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin