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Article #1126Re: Suggestions for the free Unix projects
From: Ajay Shah
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 23:15
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 23:15
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terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>>There may be a role for a profit-making company to make a $50
>>shrink-wrapped free Unix with a manual and limited support.
>o $54 for a boot floppy and tape distribution.
>o $66 for a CD ROM distribution.
>o $116 for a floppy only distribution.
>How does $1000 sound? Like BSDI?
Ok guys: how does Coherent do it? :-)
There you are -- a Profit making company, with manuals and support,
floppy distribution (albeit smaller than any of Linux et al), all
for $100. They have to even write the OS ;-)
Some say their support ain't great shakes. I wasn't hoping for more
than non-800 number help in installation.
-ans.
--
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!usc!usc!not-for-mail From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Suggestions for the free Unix projects Date: 3 Oct 1992 16:15:50 -0700 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1al9j6INN9q2@almaak.usc.edu> References: <1akqadINN76c@almaak.usc.edu> <1992Oct3.220517.1325@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Oct3.221703.1496@fcom.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu