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From: phssra@emory.uucp (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The cost of A/ux (Sticker Shock)
Message-ID: <2671@emory.uucp>
Date: 20 Feb 88 20:02:35 GMT
References: <11540137@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <11540138@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <16939@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
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In <16939@think.UUCP> ephraim@vidar.think.com.UUCP (ephraim vishniac) writes:
>In <11540138@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> kwallich@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Ken Wallich) writes:
>>I figure that Apple doesn't expect the "rest of us" to buy A/UX ($650 for
>>a manual set?  geesh).
>
>My office bought a full set of Ultrix manuals from DEC for $750 last
>week, so there's nothing remarkable in Apple's price.  Consider,
>though, that the typical Unix user doesn't need a full set of printed
>manuals.  They're identical in content to the on-line versions that
>fill your disk, and you'll never read 90% of the material.

This is actually a good question:  two years ago (this may have changed),
a MicroVax running Ultrix did not come with on-line manuals; all you
got was a set of paper manuals (it also didn't have troff, but that's
a different complaint).  The reason (I believe) was because of the space
it took up on a system they assumed would have little extra disk space,
although this is a decision that should really be made by the user.

Anyway, this is one of those details that most people might not consider
when making a purchasing decision.  Does anybody know if A/UX comes
complete with the on-line manuals?  Is there anything else on a standard
BSD system that might not be available on A/UX?

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