gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (04/03/88)
kell@gatech.edu (James K. Canty) wrote: > it was sold on an 80 meg hard drive. The price of the aux system( and this > is student pricing) is 2400-2600 dollars. To me this is ridiculous. > Why can't I buy a third party hard drive ( quite a bit cheaper too ) and > run aux on it? Are there any plans to unbundle this or what? Apple announced that people could buy the right to make e.g. 100 copies of A/UX and sell them on their own disks. However, they will not let you sell these copies mail-order. This means you can kiss the hope of getting A/UX on a reasonably priced disk goodbye; all the places that sell cheap Mac disks sell them mail-order, so they can get enough volume to sustain the low prices. Apple will eventually release A/UX on (some large number of) floppies, but I wouldn't hold my breath. They "released" it on 80MB disks in February, but you still can't buy it. It could all be a conspiracy inside Apple to pretend to have Unix while actually bending over backwards to nail Unix users to the wall. I tend to think that it's simple stupidity. They don't *realize* that they are pissing off the Unix community, who would be perfectly happy to buy A/UX through the mail and support it themself, the way they do from all the other Unix vendors. -- {pyramid,pacbell,amdahl,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com "Don't fuck with the name space!" -- Hugh Daniel