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From: bostic@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Source pricing...
Summary: Try $400.00, not $80K.
Keywords: BSD, Sys5 costs...
Message-ID: <25909@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 2 Sep 88 16:41:53 GMT
References: <2185@sultra.UUCP>
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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In article <2185@sultra.UUCP>, dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Dermot Tynan) writes:
> I once heard
> it cost $80K for a BSD source licence.  How accurate is that?

Not even slightly.

Any significant expense associated with getting 4BSD results from having
to have an AT&T source license, 32V or later.  As AT&T will no longer sell
you a 32V license, you have to buy the expensive System V ones.  Once you
have an AT&T license you can get 4.3BSD for $1000.  Once you have 4.3BSD,
you can get the latest/greatest, 4.3BSD-tahoe, for $400 (6250bpi) or $450
(1600bpi).

Keith Bostic