Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!encore!cloud9!dts
From: dts@cloud9.UUCP (Daniel Senie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Upgrade from Sys V/AT to 386 ???
Summary: Not cheap
Message-ID: <2509@cloud9.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 23:08:27 GMT
References: <672@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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In article <672@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
> 
>     I beleive this has been discussed before but has the mechanisms ever
> been put in place to allow a current user of Sys V/AT 2.4U to upgrade
> to Sys V 386 without paying full price ??  Inquiring minds want to
> know. :-)

I had a talk with one of the sales types at Microport about this. If you want
to update a kit containing everything (OS, software development tools, text
processing) the cost is $585 or so. If you just want the OS, the price was
substantially less (under $200).

At the time, I decided to wait at least until the next major rev. came out
(which it just did), but still am not sure if I want to sink another $500
plus into microport. One note from the conversation with the sales type
which will give people a good chuckle: I asked why I should buy from microport
over ATT, Bell, etc., and was told that the reason was that "Microport does
such an excellent job of support!" (If that were true, I may have actually
gotten some use out of my 286 version!).

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Daniel Senie               UUCP: harvard!ulowell!cloud9!dts 
Stratus Computer, Inc.     ARPA: anvil!cloud9!dts@harvard.harvard.edu
55 Fairbanks Blvd.         CSRV: 74176,1347
Marlboro, MA 01752	   TEL.: 508 - 460 - 2686