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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about UNIX offer
Date: 16 May 1996 12:42:09 GMT
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Alec Schwartz <alecs@mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote:

> I recently received a information from a company called Continua, Inc. 
> offering the SCO Open Server Desktop 5.0 for the PC at a price of $269.  
> I checked and the list price for this seems to be just under $800, so 
> this appears to be more than a $500 saving.  It appears to be a complete 
> version of Unix including full networking and comes with all Internet 
> sofware and GUI support.  What other questions should I be asking about 
> this product before I buy?

. Where to get the source code for the operating system?
. Whom to sue if something doesn't work as advertised?
. How to get the e-mail addresses of the developers?
. How to setup the system so Apache will work on it?

:-))

Hey, why are you asking this in this group here???

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)