Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Request BSD 4.23! Message-ID: <55020@sun.uucp> Date: 1 Jun 88 06:14:23 GMT References: <14490@brl-adm.ARPA> <11612@mimsy.UUCP> <7843@ncoast.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 17 > Is an AT&T-Toolchest source license ($200, last I checked) sufficient to get > 4.3BSD sources? Well, I'm not sure what an "AT&T-Toolchest source license" is (I thought the individual programs in the Toolchest were individually licensed), but the answer is "no" regardless of what it is, unless it is a complete UNIX source license. 4.3BSD is derived from AT&T licensed UNIX/32V code, so you need a 32V or better UNIX source license to get 4.3BSD source. > (If so, 4.3BSD is extremely affordable... unless, of course, that $1500 was > off by an order of magnitude. Maybe THAT's where AT&T *really* screwed up.) The $1500 is, I presume, the prices for an educational source license (if so, inflation strikes - I seem to remember that S3 was somewhere around $600, and V7 was closer to $100), or for the Nth add-on commercial source license for some sufficiently large value of N. I think the price for a commercial UNIX source license is in the $65K range for the first machine.