Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 22:25:35 +0400 (GMT+0400) From: Anthony Graphics <agl@mac.glas.apc.org> To: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> Cc: rcarter@geli.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950423222117.20174A-100000@mail.redline.ru> In-Reply-To: <199504201147.GAA18141@bonkers.taronga.com>
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On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Peter da Silva wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 06:47:46 -0500 (CDT) > From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> > To: Anthony Graphics <agl@mac.glas.apc.org> > Cc: rcarter@geli.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? > > > > |> work on the price of the WS vs the Price of a good PC > > ^^ > > AXP PCI 33 board costs approx 1100 USD with 166 mhz Alpha in the States > > And OSF/1 costs over $1500 (or rather, the price difference for OSF/1 is > over $1500). Well, 1-2 User licence costs $300 or 400 to my best knowledge (DEC calls it media with basic docs?) I can tell you how to upgrade to the unlimited user licence for free ;-) A bit of trickery with LMF and ... ;^] Hmm, but you'd probably need to multiply memory requirement by x4 so it's out of comparison anyway for the memory intensive apps (what is not memory intesive anyway? ;^) AGL > > Since you're pretty much stuck with NT for your AXP PCI 33 if you want to > benefit from the price, I class it as a PC rather than a WS. Hopefully > NetBSD will change that. >
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