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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The cost of A/ux (Sticker Shock)
Message-ID: <1706@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 05:47:02 GMT
References: <427@sering.cwi.nl> <2739@brspyr1.BRS.Com> <5561@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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In article <5561@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
>  The people who think apple's prices are too high are missing the point. 
> Apple > is selling A/UX as a real system. Comparing A/UX to a sun is 
> reasonable because  suns come with a large assortment of useful utilities. 
> Comparing it to a $200  port of unix isn't because to get a useful system you > will have to add a fair amount of outside utilities and do a lot of porting 
> to your version of unix.
....
> You can't get ahead, you can't even break even.
Well prior to buying my Sun I gave serious consideration, to a 386 Unix.  But
I just like SunOS better for most of the reasons you cited.  Another machine
which was quite good and that is selling at "bargain rates" is the
PC 7300 from AT&T.  You could pick one up with a 67 meg disk and System V
Unix for around $2300 or less.

> P.S. if you feel like replying to my obviously biased views 
> (unix is for dweebs)
>    do it with E-Mail (wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu). This is starting to become
> a religous war and I doubt everyone else wants to read 20 replies which say
I'll pass.  
Tho' clearly Apple doesn't necessarily share your view!? A/UX may become
their future... (did I hear the convulsive shudder of a whole bunch of
Mac OS users :^)