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From: dibble@rochester.UUCP (Peter C. Dibble)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Cost of OS-9 is about the same as cost of Unix.
Message-ID: <11856@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 16:09:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 16:09:25 1985
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> 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

How much does $100 in volume come out to retail.  If it's comparable with
OS-9's price I'll order a copy as a second operating system.
Even all the Unix manuals for < $100 would be a good deal.

As a note:  I believe that the large volume price for OS-9/68k is about
$10 per copy.