mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (03/31/85)
In article <1588@watcgl.UUCP> jchapman@watcgl.UUCP writes: > I can get msdos (not a great system but it works), an assembler, > linker, pascal compiler, fortran compiler, modula compiler and > a screen editor for under $1000 - what will software support > for other machines cost? For the 68K family: $350 CP/M-68K, with C compiler, assembler, linker and (lousy) editor $50 RED screen editor. Others (mince) are available. F77, Forth, APL and LISP are all available. Probably others. Of course, CP/M isn't quite as nice a system as MSDOS. So... $600 OS/9-68K, with C compiler, assembler, linker and screen editor. LISP and Forth are available. Also BASIC09, a Pascal with BASICs concept of types. OS/9 is a much better system than MSDOS, or CCP/M, or Concurrent DOS, etc. A good case can be made for OS/9 being a better system than Unix. In other words, the cost is comparable to MSDOS. The result is a much nicer system: multi-tasking, multi-user, with enough address space to let me run a LISP system comfortably. <mike