Workstation pricing, Sun vs. ISA

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Fri Sep 1 10:48:04 AEST 1989


In article <1320 at blackbird.afit.af.mil> mproicou at blackbird.afit.af.mil (Michael C. Proicou) writes:
>>Bell Tech (now Intel) System V, Release 3.2, w/
>>documentation                                          395
>                                                        ^^^
>Is this really the price for System V Unix?????  I was under the 
>impression that Unix was still > $1000 even without the troff
>stuff.

We have to pay AT&T $180 for a many-user UNIX SVR3.0 binary sublicense;
I think SVR3.2 has the same AT&T sublicense pricing.  DWB (troff etc.)
costs a miniscule amount extra.  With documentation, and possibly some
degree of vendor support, $395 is a fair retail price.



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