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From: sjrudek@sactoh0.UUCP (Steve J. Rudek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (was long)
Summary: (1) Are individual students eligible for the $6500 price?
	 (2) How complete a UNIX is MACH?
Message-ID: <530@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 17:51:13 GMT
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Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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answer to -- the above questions.  No one has, and I'm tired of
waiting!
 
There are obviously a lot of USENET folks jumping up and down and
salivating because (a) NeXT is offering an "educational discount"
and (b) they are "students" (I surmise).  Is it correct to assume
that *individual* students will also be eligible for this price
discount?  (If so, I suppose I can always go back to school for a
quarter:) 
 
I keep hearing that MACH is *derived* from UNIX -- and, in one
previous message, that the new release of the OS will be free from
AT&T licensing.  This, to me, raises the obvious question: is MACH
a *complete* UNIX clone?  Does it include basically *all* the utility
programs that come pretty much standard with AT&T/BSD UNIX?  Just
how (a) buggy and (b) compatible can we expect it to be?  There
are LOTS of UNIX clones already out there (e.g., Coherent, Idris,
Minix) but there are significant reasons why most of us prefer the
real thing.

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