Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!frankk
From: frankk@cwi.nl (Frank Kuiper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The cost of A/ux (Sticker Shock)
Message-ID: <427@sering.cwi.nl>
Date: 22 Feb 88 22:57:07 GMT
References: <11540137@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <430018@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Organization: Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam
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In article <430018@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman) writes:
   > ... the MacII at list price is at the limit of my personal
   >budget and AUX totally blows any hope away. 

I think we are missing something here. I have been reading this net for
some years now, and I can't remember ever having seen debates on the
possibilities of buying one's own unix-box.
Up 'till now, unix machines have always been purchased by the 
company/institute someone is working for. Now that a company brings
out a unix version on what actually is a large PC-type of machine,
I read many complaints that it's to expensive.
True, I personally don't have the money to buy a MacII with A/UX, but
I know that the institute I work for is seriously considering buying
MacII's, with respect to Sun's and the like.

So, to all you hackers who are trying to get their hands on a unix box
for their personal satisfaction I say: 
    "This is the first time ever, that you are even close to buying a
     unix machine for yourself, all beit still not a cheap one ..."


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