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Article #2121Re: Price of DWB 3.1
From: Rich Stevens
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 15:50
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 15:50
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In article <1990Nov19.143129.12604@cbnewsl.att.com> npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes: > >List price for most workstations was under $1,000. Not quite. I talked to Elan (one of the bigger troff VARS, I'd guess) and two months ago they wanted $1,795 for DWB 2.0 with a PostScript filter. Add an X11 previewer and it's another $495. This was all for a SPARCstation SLC, which I consider to be a single-user system. I'd bet SoftQuad is as much, if not more. After posting to this newsgroup I finally found one VAR whose price is $750 for a 1-2 user workstation. In fact, after posting to this group no one gave me the names of any VARs selling binary DWB for a SPARC other than these three. And then I found groff ... Rich Stevens
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!noao!rstevens From: rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Price of DWB 3.1 Message-ID: <1990Nov19.155006.8461@noao.edu> Date: 19 Nov 90 15:50:06 GMT References: <16706@letni.UUCP> <2971@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Nov19.143129.12604@cbnewsl.att.com> Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ Lines: 16