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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Networking DOS to Unix (Know about commercial products...)
Message-ID: <1991May8.075949.13369@pegasus.com>
Date: 8 May 91 07:59:49 GMT
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>How strange it seems.  A Unix-based product makes it in LAN Magazine as
>product of the year, and yet it seems such a well-kept secret.
>
> [...]
>
>Is it expensive?  The previous message seemed to suggest that it would be.
>Well, no it isn't.  At a list price of $2,595 for their low-end package,
>you also get an Ethernet card.  You can also get it with Arcnet, Twisted Pair,
>Token Ring, etc.  If you add the $2,595 to the cost of Unix run-time (about
>$900, you get a total which is somewhat less than the cost of Netware 386
>plus a network card.  In fact, the total is less than half!

Yow!  Do you get a computer for that price too?  I hope so.  The other
packages being discussed here are way less than that.

>On the DOS side, the drivers are smaller than Novell's, which means you also
>save memory in your DOS machines.  

Everybody is smaller than Novell (and cheaper).


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com