17 Jan
1999
17 Jan
'99
5:44 a.m.
At 11:42 16/01/99 -0600, Miles O'Neal wrote:
Of course, it's a good feeling to even have the
option.
Because 10 - 12 years ago, what were your UNIX options, if
you weren't the government or a university?
Well you could either buy A/UX from Apple or SCO Unix. I looked at both of
these for my first Unix system about 10 years ago. In the end I got A/UX as
it was a couple of thousand dollars cheaper though I ended up spending
about AUD$8000 on the system. Fortunately I got work to buy some of the
upgrades (like the $2000 200Mb disk...).
I've still got the A/UX box here at home. After I've had fun playing with
my new ISDN connection, I might even reconfigure it to be on the Internet
again...