Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site kitty.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!kitty!peter From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Re: Limiting logons to licensed number: how? Message-ID: <290@kitty.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 13:17:21 EDT Article-I.D.: kitty.290 Posted: Fri Aug 9 13:17:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 02:48:04 EDT References: <1029@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> <112@vcvax1.UUCP> <169@telesoft.UUCP> <2154@hcradm.UUCP> Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY Lines: 13 > 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.