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From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods)
Date: Fri, 2-Sep-88 22:54:04 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Sep2.225404.28094@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: G. A. W. Consulting
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Source pricing...
References: <2185@sultra.UUCP> <25909@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: woods@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Keywords: BSD, Sys5 costs...

In article <25909@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> bostic@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes:
> 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).

Yeah, but when you add the price of that "expensive" System V license
you just may be over that $80,000 ball-park figure.  Last time I checked,
it was ~ $72,000 CAN for SysV source.  Probably in the $65,000 US range.

I think Dermot was looking for the total price.

Anyone know what the price of an original Unix 32/V commercial license was?