Source pricing...

Keith Bostic bostic at ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Sat Sep 3 02:41:53 AEST 1988


In article <2185 at sultra.UUCP>, dtynan at sultra.UUCP (Dermot Tynan) writes:
> I once heard
> it cost $80K for a BSD source licence.  How accurate is that?

Not even slightly.

Any significant expense associated with getting 4BSD results from having
to have an AT&T source license, 32V or later.  As AT&T will no longer sell
you a 32V license, you have to buy the expensive System V ones.  Once you
have an AT&T license you can get 4.3BSD for $1000.  Once you have 4.3BSD,
you can get the latest/greatest, 4.3BSD-tahoe, for $400 (6250bpi) or $450
(1600bpi).

Keith Bostic



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