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From: kari@finn (Kari Karhi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: USENIX Summer 1991 and the absence of NeXT
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.194851.18477@pensoft.uucp>
Date: 17 Jun 91 19:48:51 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.194907.2960@kithrup.COM>
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In article <1991Jun14.194907.2960@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric  
Fagan) writes:
> Of course, you could have gotten a cheap '386 clone and run unix on that for
> about half the money.

And what OS would you be running?  I know I can get the hardware for about  
$1,700.00 (half of $3,500, right?), though the monitor most probably would NOT  
be 1120x900 (but would be color!).  But when I last looked, SCO Unix was also  
$1,700.00 with X-windows, and ISC was about the same ball mark (including the  
development environment and X Windows).  Lately UHS (Unix House ?) has been  
offering a SysV R4, but again at about the same price.  Do you know of anything  
cheaper, with about the same functionality?  (Please do not mention Coherent  
;-) )  Of course if you can get a "free" copy, the story is different.   
Unfortunately that is not the option for a lot of us.  And then there are all  
those wonderful NeXTstep apps like IB and bundled software and PS and NeXTstep  
and ...

	Kari Karhi
	Pencom Software
	(512)343-1111
	pensoft!kari@cs.utexas.edu