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From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Cost of OS-9 is about the same as cost of Unix.
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 20:23:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 20:23:42 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.  (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.