Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!rochester!dibble 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 Article-I.D.: rocheste.11856 Posted: Wed Sep 25 16:09:25 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Sep-85 01:53:22 EDT References: <511@petrus.UUCP> <974@druxo.UUCP> <575@sftig.UUCP> <798@lsuc.UUCP> <153@l5.uucp> Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 16 > 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.