Re: Hardware and OS for free software development

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From: Michael Crawford
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 1990 20:30

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Pardon me.

In article <7570@goofy.Apple.COM> escher@Apple.COM (Michael Crawford) writes:
>
>Buy a 386 PC, get Mach for free, and purchase the Andrew file system
>(to be available "soon") from Transarc, then load it up with the
>GNU utilities, and the BSD4.3 tahoe utilities, which are distributed
>by FSF.  I am looking into this myself; send me mail, if you are
>interested, and I will pass on the details when I get them.

Apparently I was mistaken; the people who had a free 386 Mach installation
had an AT&T source license, and were paying for AFS.

Mt Xinu is selling, or will soon, a Mach port with AFS, NFS, and more, for
$2600, to those with AT&T source licenses.

Sorry to the 20 or so people who sent me mail asking for the details.  Sure
seems to me there should be something we can do about this... send checks to
GNU!

I will keep investigating, though.

-- 
Michael D. Crawford
Oddball Enterprises
606 Modesto Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
oddball!mike@ucscc.ucsc.edu

Consulting for Apple Computer Inc.
escher@apple.com
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The opinions expressed here are solely my own.

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