From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 11:28:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA03741 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 11:28:40 -0700 Received: from redline.ru (mail.redline.ru [194.87.69.22]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA03728 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 11:28:29 -0700 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 22:25:35 +0400 (GMT+0400) From: Anthony Graphics X-Sender: agl@mail.redline.ru To: Peter da Silva cc: rcarter@geli.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? In-Reply-To: <199504201147.GAA18141@bonkers.taronga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Peter da Silva wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 06:47:46 -0500 (CDT) > From: Peter da Silva > To: Anthony Graphics > 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. >