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From: rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Price of DWB 3.1
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.155006.8461@noao.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 90 15:50:06 GMT
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In article <1990Nov19.143129.12604@cbnewsl.att.com> npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes:
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>List price for most workstations was under $1,000.

Not quite.  I talked to Elan (one of the bigger troff VARS, I'd guess)
and two months ago they wanted $1,795 for DWB 2.0 with a PostScript
filter.  Add an X11 previewer and it's another $495.  This was all
for a SPARCstation SLC, which I consider to be a single-user system.
I'd bet SoftQuad is as much, if not more.  After posting to this
newsgroup I finally found one VAR whose price is $750 for a 1-2 user
workstation.  In fact, after posting to this group no one gave me the
names of any VARs selling binary DWB for a SPARC other than these three.

And then I found groff ...

	Rich Stevens