Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A3000UX competition Keywords: Unix A3000 A3000UX NeXT Message-ID: Date: 2 Dec 90 16:24:40 GMT References: <453@mathlab.math.ufl.EDU> Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 26 In article <453@mathlab.math.ufl.EDU> adin@Math.UFL.EDU (Adin Burroughs) writes: > I would worry about a vendor that called the full man pages an extra. > At that rate, the C compiler (and the text processing tools, and the > networking software, and the networking hardware) is an extra. The way AT&T licenses UNIX, the MAN pages, the C Compiler, the DWB, the UUCP and other networking software *ARE* all extra. Just because Sun has always included them all with SunOS doesn't mean that they aren't extras. All the world is not Sun. 1/2 :-) Besides, C-A is calling it an extra... but one that they throw in for free. If you consider the business UNIX systems that they are trying to compete with, it's very special that they throw them in at all. In AT&T's non-research (i.e. corporate) offices, they often don't even purchase the MAN pages. In the business environment it's just too much disk space. This is how it was last summer when I did an internship with them. (Disclaimer: I'm not speaking for AT&T). -Tom -- tlimonce@drew.edu Tom Limoncelli "Flash! Flash! I love you! tlimonce@drew.bitnet +1 201 408 5389 ...but we only have fourteen tlimonce@drew.uucp limonce@pilot.njin.net hours to save the earth!"