Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!steve From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: How to obtain A/UX 2.0? Message-ID: <1990Nov29.195358.25359@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 19:53:58 GMT References: <1990Nov29.161826.9850@agate.berkeley.edu> <98@victoria.cs.utexas.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 24 In article <98@victoria.cs.utexas.edu> ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward) writes: #>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) Strange. UC Berkeley's Scholar's WorkStation, which sells Apple products, sells A/UX at a discounted price. Steve Goldfield