Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Bell Tech Pricing
Summary: buy the license and borrow the media
Keywords: Advertising Pranks
Message-ID: <2315@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 88 13:12:32 GMT
References: <294@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> <236@belltec.UUCP> <6475@bcsaic.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <6475@bcsaic.UUCP>, paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) writes:
> I'm an individual, not a corporation.  I would like to run unix on the
> biggest, fastest 386 box I can fit into my budget.  I'm going to buy one
> copy.  Your ad (I've seen it in the June Unix Review and the latest Dr.
> Dobb's) screams (well, 23 point type, anyway!) that I can get Unix SVR3
> for a 386 *complete* for $145.  Now that I know what to look for, I see
> that one of the available options is a 'media kit'.  Sheesh!  Does the
> $235 price include any documentation?

I paid $320, I think it was, for unlimited user 386, media kit and the sysadmin
manuals.  I don't think that's bad, not at all, particularly after buying
Microport 286 unlimited user, DOS merge, nroff, source development, upgrade
package, support, &c and didn't get squat with respect to bug fixes (two years
of serial driver hangs and panics).

Granted, the ad is a bit misleading.  Nonetheless, it appears to me that one
could buy the license from Bell Tech and borrow the disks from a friend.
(Don't have a friend?  Try bathing more often :-)  It *is* nice that they
will sell a license without the media.  I'm going to be buying one for the
second 386, and $145 is a steal, especially since it all seems to work.
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-- karl@sugar.uu.net aka uunet!sugar!karl