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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Cost of OS-9 is about the same as cost of Unix.
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 07:48:51 EDT
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> 
>      I heard that $100.00 price too.  As for the repackagers, well,
> I don't know that they really rip people off.  If they do a reall
> port, ie with all the hardware interfacing completed, and provide
> support (which I hear ATT doesn't), then the $300.00 isn't all that
> bad.  Keep in mind that the $100.00 general price of OS-9 is
> what I see for *ready to run* OS-9 software.  You don't have to
> spend hours trying to get it up.  How much is your time worth?

And the $300 is for a bare-bones UNIX system. They generally charge $1000
to $1500 for the whole thing... $1000 is too much for the amount of time and
money it takes to get a Uniplus+ port done for your machine... if it costs less
to port UNIX than to develop your own O/S, then why do all these people develop
their own O/S-es and sell them for $150, or get UNIX and sell it for a grand?