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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: QNX Operating System
Keywords: operating system
Message-ID: <7190@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 12 May 89 22:03:36 GMT
References: <634@pmafire.UUCP> <13739@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <5000@mnetor.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <5000@mnetor.UUCP> frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) writes:
>>>...costs $450.
...
>Our consulting comapny has been using QNX for a couple of years, and
>it is hands down the best choice for a distributed, real-time system...

So far as I can tell, QNX costs $450 or so minimum.  Could you, or
somebody else, convince the company to sell it for $60 or so in a
minimum configuration?  At that price I would buy it just to experiment
with it.  At $450 or so I will wait until I *know* I need it, and that
won't happen until *after* I have experimented with it.  (And at that
price I expect everything that a similarly-priced System V or Xenix
package comes with, which includes make, sccs, uucp, C compiler and
debugger, and hundreds of other utilities.)

Let's remember MS-DOS's humble origin at $45 per copy (and it's still
well under the $100 mark).
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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