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On Friday 07 May 2004 09:55 pm, you wrote:
> Xenix was selling for $595/seat mail-order. Coherent (a UNIX clone) was
> $500. A Lattice C compiler was $350. A 40 MB HDD was $3,495, and a 368 MB
> hard disk was $$17,995. You usually spent $5,000 to $15,000 for a
> well-equipped machine in those days. We all have it so good today.
>
> (Hi, I'm Ken and I'm a pack rat...)
>
> Ken Elliott
Excellent archives, Ken! I wanted Coherent SOOOO bad but simply couldn't
justify $500 for it when Dos was free$.
I finally got a copy of Coherent a few years ago. Free as part of a Unix
sysadmin class at the local Comm. College. Unfortunately, the Mark Williams
Company is no more so it wasn't possible to update it.
If an unsupported version of Coherent had been available for ~$50, I'd have
bought a copy and quite likely so would a number of other people I knew at
the time. We were thinking that dos was 'ok', but Unix was the next step up.
But none of us could justify $500 just for an OS / no apps.
Kind of like Win XP today.
Bill
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