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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: New Pricing: Is BSDI brain damaged?
Date: 26 Aug 1995 14:09:48 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <41i2i6$mmc@homer.alpha.net>, Dean Roth <Dean_Roth@mgic.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a new (modern) UNIX package. I was considering BSDI,
> but after seeing the current prices I've changed my mind, and will
> start the hunt for a new UNIX again. $3,000 is a big jump from the old
> price of about $600. Maybe I should give that free Windows NT 3.5
> package Microsoft gave me another consideration?
Depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to run an ISP
on it, NT probably wouldn't be the best choice. ;-) The closest
thing to BSD/OS then would be FreeBSD or NetBSD. I have a personal
bias in favour of FreeBSD, but recent releases have been very stable
and performance is comparable to BSD/OS. It also supports SCSI hosts
other than Buslogic (which BSD/OS did not until 2.0.1), including the
Adaptec AHA-3940 multichannel controller.
Give it a try and see how it works out... the price is certainly
right. ;-)
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org