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From: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sun NeWS on the Amiga
Message-ID: <302@l5comp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 01:43:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: l5comp.302
Posted: Sat Jul 25 01:43:44 1987
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Reply-To: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: L5 Computing, Edmonds, WA
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Summary: Is it really $100???

In article <3599@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>In article <23815@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>>Sun sells the NeWS binary tape for Sun 3's for $100, what did you pay for
>>Dpaint?
>>
>	Ooops!  I didn't know it was this reasonable.  I seem to have this
>mindset that anything associated with UNIX has to be over-priced.

Leo, he says it's $100 "for Suns"... This brings a few questions to my mind:
1. Can I buy News from Sun on a cartridge for $100 if I don't intend to use
it on a Sun 3??? ie do I need a Sun 3 serial #?
2. Is $100 the single copy price or is that a quantity/dealer price?
3. Is the binary complete or do I need to have NFS etc as well?
4. And you're right Leo, just about everything is overpriced for un*x. Mainly
because noone believes that only one person will be using software at a site
since a un*x machine is inherently multi-user. But if news is only $100 how
much are the manuals? :) If un*x software is expensive you should see what
everyone wants for manuals!

Scott Turner
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