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From: Will Rose cwr@cra...
Subject: Why?
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 21:17:36 -0400

David Breneman (david.BReneman@mcc...) wrote:
[...]
: process. The last AT&T OS I saw pricing on was SVR4 for the 3B2-R3-1050.
: It was $35,000.  Knocking two of those zeros off is quite an accomplishment.
: The more pedestrian SVR 3.2 for the 3B2-400 was $1500.  Plan 9 is still
: a bargain compared to that.  The people who buy those type OSes are the
: customers for Plan 9.  Not the people who judge an OS by how pretty
: the icons are.  It's a bargain.

Those were commercial licenses, and Plan 9's CDROM is *not* commercial.
I don't know what a commercial license is, but a lot more than $350.
Might be worth it tho', if it's not in the tens of thousands.

Will
cwr@cra...