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Article #350Re: Source CDs
From: Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 04:03
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 04:03
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In article <1992Oct5.020922.714@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes: > I know > of no other hardware-vendor-supported OS (proprietary or otherwise) for which > you can get listings for only $2K. Back when DEC shipped fiche free with VMS updates, IBM shipped _source_ (real source, not listings) with VM/SP and fiche with layered products such as the Fortran compiler, etc. Now DEC sells the listings and IBM is OCO (Object Code Only). The "new frontier" is in things like BSD/386 from BSDI, which is a full Berkeley- style Unix (tm) environment which is a supported commercial product. Of course, they don't sell hardware... Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!rutgers!spcvxb!terry From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals Subject: Re: Source CDs Message-ID: <1992Oct6.000316.4041@spcvxb.spc.edu> Date: 6 Oct 92 04:03:16 GMT References: <8434779@MVB.SAIC.COM> <1OCT199208343987@carat.arizona.edu> <1992Oct2.133612.704@cmkrnl.com> <1992Oct4.042754.4024@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1992Oct5.020922.714@cmkrnl.com> Distribution: world,local Organization: St. Peter's College, US Lines: 17