Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX cost
Message-ID: <338@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 22:05:55 GMT
References: <8659@allegra.UUCP> <11540139@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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In article <11540139@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> kwallich@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Ken Wallich) writes:
>What about those of us who chose to buy 160MB discs (almost everyones 160MB
>drives are cheeper that Apples 80MB drive anyway :-).  We now are being 
>told we MUST buy the drives we previously refused to (after all, they were 
>overpriced and slow), if we want to get A/UX.  Someone from Apple posted a 
>response somewhere around here telling us that "The Apple tape drive is NOT
>CURRENTLY SUPPORTED UNDER A/UX".  Tells me I don't have much choice, so my
>choice is gonna be to buy someone elses UNIX box, and use my MacII to run
>"BetaWare" like Fullwrite (:-). 

A Unix that doesn't support ANY tape devices?  And how do we do backups?
I like the Mac, and I like Unix, but there's no way I'd use a Unix that didn't
support some form of backup device (other than floppies -- I'm not too fond
of doing 100 disk backups once a week :-)) even if it were free (which it
ain't).

Face it guys (including you guys at Apple) -- the Sun folks have us here.
I'm looking forward to the *real* A/UX release...

And in response to the complaint from one of the Apple folk that including
tapes would double the number of "packages" that had to be supported, how
about selling things in separate packages, but just charging differently
depending on whether they're bought together?  That way you have 1 box for
manuals, 1 box for A/UX on disk, 1 box for A/UX on tape, 1 box for PMMU,
etc., not an ever-expanding number of "packages."  Geesh, guys, this product
isn't exactly going to be sold like Mircrosoft Word... it's UNIX!  People
aren't going to be walking into their local dealers in droves and picking
the things off the shelves ("do you also have the documentation in blue?").

There, I feel much better.  :-)

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