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I think you're expecting too much.  If you look at the price of getting
A/UX 2.0 alone, it's actually quite reasonable.  Consider that unix
systems generally don't come with manuals, and the price of getting the
manual set, if you feel you must have it, is no longer unreasonable;
it's about the same as manuals for other unix implementations.  The
same with X-windows... that's an add-on almost anywhere you look.

As far as manuals go, if you feel you need them, you can do what most
colleges do, and get a single set of manuals to be shared among several
or many users or systems.  If you're not going to be the only person there
who'll get A/UX, you can try to convince the school to get a set for public
reference purposes.

You've got your choice of medium, too... with floppies being the least 
expensive but least convenient.  Getting A/UX on CD-ROM will most
likely make the most sense, since rumor has it that you can run with
the unchangable portion of the kernel right on the CD, so you'll only
need about 20 megs worth of hard disk space (maybe even on a drive you
already own) to run the thing.  Also, considering you'll be able to
access MacOS partitions at the same time, you don't need to worry about
having two discrete hard drives in order to make this work.

Mr. Brown had a good point... you, as a college student, are trying to
end up with a high-powered unix workstation that most businesses and
scientific users would consider high-end.  While it's a great idea, and
I empathize because I tried to keep up with the state of the art when
I was in college, I think it's unfair to blame Apple for pricing their
high-end products out of reach of a student budget.


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