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From: adam@arcadia.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Adam Eberbach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: BSDI? How does this fit in?
Date: 3 Jun 1994 01:12:27 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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Jordan Hubbard (jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com) wrote:
: In article <2sjfmq$f25@Mercury.mcs.com> dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) writes:

:    BSDI is the commercial version of 4.4 BSD lite, something like $1000US 
:    gets you source and binaries...

: Not true - BSDI is not yet 4.4 Lite based.  The current release is
: still based on Net/2.


So does my $1500 Australian get me anything more than I would get if
I sat down at my terminal with lots of floppies? If it's the same thing
I'm not inclined to pay so much for just phone support.

--
Adam Eberbach, Computer Science student, RMIT.  adam@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au
and now also...adam@halcyon.com.au. - I test modems and program windows.