Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site l5.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!l5!gnu From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Cost of OS-9 is about the same as cost of Unix. Message-ID: <153@l5.uucp> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 20:23:42 EDT Article-I.D.: l5.153 Posted: Mon Sep 23 20:23:42 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 08:38:34 EDT References: <511@petrus.UUCP> <974@druxo.UUCP> <575@sftig.UUCP> <798@lsuc.UUCP> Organization: Ell-Five [Consultants], San Francisco Lines: 14 In article <798@lsuc.UUCP>, jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes: > The cost of licensing OS-9 isn't unreasonably high. If you check > around, you'll find that it's generally licenced for about $100.00 U.S. > The Shack is able to sell it for as little as $70.00 Canadian. Somehow I got the impression that a single-user Unix license (the real thing from AT&T) could be gotten in large volumes at less than $100. This includes a license to run *ALL* the Unix utilities, all the languages, etc. (The people who divide it all up into dozens of separately priced $300 floppies are just ripping you off.) I suspect OS-9 fits better into a system with a 300K floppy and no hard disk, making it a better deal for the $100 for that kind of system, but that wasn't the question.