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From: paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 386BSD (was Re: MINIX on a 486?)
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.111358.1498@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 17 Jun 91 11:13:58 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.145309.29231@ukpoit.co.uk> <1991Jun13.165309.20341@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> <443@rubble.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood)
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In article <443@rubble.UUCP> chris@rubble.UUCP (Chris Nitsopoulos) writes:
>Introductory full source code license will be $US995.  This is 50%
>discount from the list price of $1995.  Educational discounts will
>also be avalible.  Purchasers of the first release may upgrade,
>without charge, to the second release.  
>
>Soon and almost free are definitly true...
          ^^^^^^^^^^^
Huh!, Sorry but I had to read that last line of yours a few times before
I could believe it. $US995 may be relatively inexpensive, but compared
to Minix's price of $US169, BSD's price of $US995 cannot be called cheap.
You may be comparing it with SCO or Interactive, but that is not what
the original posting was doing. In this news group we should be comparing 
it with Minix.

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