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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
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Subject: Re: AT&T and the 3B*2
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Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 12:17:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  4 12:17:01 1984
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In defense of the partitioning of UNIX software for the 3B2.

Everyone seems to think this is AT&T's idea.  When the manager making
the purchase sees a list of the software he is paying for he is going
to start asking about what kind of discount he can get if he doesn't
buy nroff, the C compiler, and uucp.

Not everyone wants to do development on these machines.  Some people
will probably buy it for a dedicated application (it would make a nice
center network node) or will just run vi and nroff on it.

In short, if AT&T didn't offer to sell the parts individually then we
would see 500 articles from people who were being "forced by AT&T" to
buy software they didn't need.

I think most people's complaints are based on the idea that their
manager will buy one and force them to justify getting all the neat
little goodies they want to play with.  I'm not criticizing this just
pointing out that people should say so if it is their motivation.
(It would be my complaint except for the fact that ours came with a
full set of software.)

					    Jerry Aguirre
    {hplabs|fortune|ios|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!jerry