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From: fst@mcgp1.UUCP (Skip Tavakkolian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IDRIS
Summary: IDRIS prices
Message-ID: <1490@mcgp1.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 06:06:08 GMT
References: <4603@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <1473@mcgp1.UUCP> <495@mks.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Tools Int'l Inc.
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In article <495@mks.UUCP>, wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
> In article <1473@mcgp1.UUCP>, fst@mcgp1.UUCP (Skip Tavakkolian) writes:
> > IDRIS for ST/MEGA is $149.95 (US), STX-Windows is $49.95 (US).
> Is this a new price? The reason I didn't look very hard at Idris was the
> $800 or so price it had.  Does that $149.95 price include a C compiler
> and so forth?

The $149.95 (US) price does NOT include the Whitesmiths C compiler. It
includes the mulit-user, multi-tasking executive and the utilities (about
80 or so), standard drivers, and drivers needed to run STX-Windows (sockets,
ptys, etc.)

IDRIS + WSL C + STX-Windows + Pascal + 68020 libs for the ST/MEGA is
$600 (US).  This is called a Professional System (PS).

> 
> So, if Idris is really that cheap, maybe we should compare it to Minix.
> Anybody familiar with both? Any of the Minix beta testers around? Could
> you give us some comments?

I made an offer a few weeks ago to send a Review copy of IDRIS PS to a
prominent member of this news group for one or two months with the condition
that, that person would post their opinion and general impression of the
products to this news group.

> -- 
>      Gerry Wheeler                           Phone: (519)884-2251
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Are you interested?

Sincerely
-- 
Fariborz ``Skip'' Tavakkolian
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