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 Lines: 22 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. -- -- karl@sugar.uu.net aka uunet!sugar!karl