piper@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM (Piper Keairnes) (02/12/91)
What would be the best price an educational purchaser could find for AUX 2.0.1 software only? Hard disk is not needed. Perhaps a breakdown of different distribution media costs and what manuals would cost. -- Piper Keairnes * piper@s5000.rsvl.unisys.com * Purdue Univ. Unisys Corporation * uunet!s5000.rsvl.unisys.com!piper * Computing Center Open Software Products * 1410 Carling Dr, St Paul, MN 55108 * Consultant
jkd@unhtel.unh.edu (Joyce K. Duszak) (02/13/91)
In article <98@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM> piper@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM (Piper Keairnes) writes: >What would be the best price an educational purchaser could find for >AUX 2.0.1 software only? Hard disk is not needed. Perhaps a breakdown >of different distribution media costs and what manuals would cost. > >-- Me too! Also, any other information regarding the installation and use of A/UX. -- Joyce Duszak jkd@unhtel.UUCP j_duszak@unhh.unh.edu UNH Telecommunications voice: +l 603 862 4989 Durham, NH 03824-3523 FAX: +1 603 862 2030
ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) (02/16/91)
In article <98@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM> piper@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM (Piper Keairnes) writes: >What would be the best price an educational purchaser could find for >AUX 2.0.1 software only? Hard disk is not needed. Perhaps a breakdown >of different distribution media costs and what manuals would cost. Well I was interested too and checked it out about a week ago. Boy was I shocked. The HEPP pricing, plus a 10% markup at our college store was $730 for A/UX with the "Accessory Kit" (what's that?) and $587 for the manuals. It is somewhat cheaper to buy it on a CD-ROM. Yeah, I know that UNIX has gotten expensive, but $1300 sounds outrageous to me - I sure can't spend that much as an individual. Right now I own an AT&T 3B1 (2MB RAM/67 MB disk) which runs UNIX System V and had been thinking about selling it and buying A/UX for my Mac IIcx. I only paid $2300 new for the 3B1 a few years ago including Unix, and doubt that I could even get the $1300 to buy A/UX if I sold it today. One possibility did catch my eye, though. You can get a "right to copy" licence for about $100 to install A/UX on additional workstations. Perhaps several people could get together and do a group buy to take advantage of this pricing.... == Boyd Ostroff, Tech Director == Sys Admin, "The CallBoard" == |||| Dept of Theatre, SUNY Oswego |||| Serving the Performing Arts |||| |||| (315) 341-2987 |||| 315-947-6414 1200/2400 baud 8N1 |||| == ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu == cboard!sysop@oswego.oswego.edu ==
piper@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM (Piper Keairnes) (02/21/91)
ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes: >Well I was interested too and checked it out about a week ago. Boy was >I shocked. The HEPP pricing, plus a 10% markup at our college store was >$730 for A/UX with the "Accessory Kit" (what's that?) and $587 for the >manuals. It is somewhat cheaper to buy it on a CD-ROM. While at a Computer Fair, a salesman gave me the impression that educational prices would be on the order of $400-$500. Bummer... Does the release come with manuals in the electronic form? (e.g. troff sources for the full blown manuals... not man pages) I know that the manuals are available on-line for System V/386 from AT&T. Certainly would be cheaper to print them out myself, but I don't suppose Apple would allow that. :-( -- Piper Keairnes * piper@s5000.rsvl.unisys.com * Purdue Univ. Unisys Corporation * uunet!s5000.rsvl.unisys.com!piper * Computing Center Open Software Products * 1410 Carling Dr, St Paul, MN 55108 * Consultant