rburns%master@Sun.COM (Randy Burns) (02/17/89)
Does any apple dealer have any intent to make AUX available on CD-ROM. I've been considering getting AUX. The price of the product and updates seems kind of stiff largely because of the media cost. From what I've seen from Apple's licensing agreement, this is something a dealer could do. It only costs something like $1500 to master a CD, then about $2.00 for each CD-Produced. This approach might make it feasible to also include a lot of other software with the AUX distribution and would allow those parts of AUX which are not used frequently to be used from the CD. What do other folks think?
barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (02/17/89)
In article <90136@sun.uucp>, rburns%master (Randy Burns) writes: >Does any apple dealer have any intent to make AUX available on CD-ROM. Good points and bad points. Good => easy to include on-line documentation, with graphics, etc. They could also include useful sources to public domain software, like x windows, etc. Bad=> You need to copy the stuff over to a disk anyway. You would need floppies for last minute changes. Also, what does Apple do with 10,000 old copies of A/UX 1.0? :-) At least the NeXT type disk is re-usable and writable -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@ge-crd.ARPA, barnett@steinmetz.ge.com uunet!steinmetz!barnett