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From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
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Subject: Re: Re: Limiting logons to licensed number: how?
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 13:17:21 EDT
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> the current single-user price (very cheap) and the "mainframe" price ($7000

It's not quite cheap enough to compete, unfortunately. $150 is about the most
you can expect to sell an O/S for a small computer for & get away with it. At
that price unbundling would make sense. Unbundling at 3to10 times that price is
self-defeating.

> I think.)  The result would be a bargain for big mainframes, at the
> expense of higher prices for the "little guy".  You might feel better
> to view the user-pricing as a small machine discount.  Historically,
> I believe that was how it was derived.

Good point. I hadn't thought of it that way.