From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 4 7:20:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from opus.cirr.com (opus.cirr.com [192.67.63.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8802414C32 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 07:20:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eric@cirr.com) Received: from cirr.com (IDENT:eric@egsner.cirr.com [192.67.63.1]) by opus.cirr.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA28867 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:18:27 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199911041518.JAA28867@opus.cirr.com> From: eric@cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen) To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tru64 Unix for $99 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Nov 1999 07:05:04 PST." <14369.41120.144357.174059@bogon.kjsl.com> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 09:18:26 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Javier Henderson writes: - Jim King writes: - > See http://www.unix.digital.com/noncommercial-unix/. It looks like Compaq - > is selling Tru64 5.0 for $99 to "non-commercial technology - > enthusiasts". Sounds interesting... - - Heck, they're giving VMS away for free to hobbysits, why - not do the same with Unix? Because they have to pay licensing fees to SCO for their UNIX product, while they _complete_ own the basic technologies for OpenVMS. -- Eric Schnoebelen eric@cirr.com http://www.cirr.com "...Microsoft is to software what Miller (and the other big American brewers) are to beer." -- Mark Bartelt in comp.sys.dec To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message