Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!ted From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: How to obtain A/UX 2.0? Message-ID: <98@victoria.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 19:00:35 GMT References: <16258@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Nov22.000217.17881@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1990Nov29.161826.9850@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 22 In article <1990Nov29.161826.9850@agate.berkeley.edu> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes: >Why would someone with an Email address at Stanford buy from >a private dealer when he is presumably eligible for the much >cheaper university prices? Because the computer center at Stanford is probably as short sighted as the Microcenter here at UT; we don't sell AUX. Why, you ask? Many reasons, but foremost are: 1) they would have to support it, because they want to support everything they sell. Of course, they don't support HP printers, which they used to sell... 2) the Computation Center handles all Unix things. Of course, the CC doesn't sell things, and the Microcenter sells Next machines, but Mach isn't REAL Unix in the eyes of the Microcenter, I guess. -- Ted Woodward (ted@cs.utexas.edu) "Mad scientists HATE shopping for shoes!" -- Peaches