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From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: BSD for a 386
Message-ID: <1992Nov9.004009.27330@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:40:09 GMT
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Charles E Newman (newman@netcom.com) wrote:
: 
: 
:           How much does BSD for the 386 cost? One one community college I went
: to got it for their mainframe machine, BSD UNIX cost them $5000. Is it that
: much for a PC and how much Hard Disk space does it require. The mainframe 
Free. Includes source code.

: versions tipically take 120 megs of disk space. At least that is what it takes
: on a VAX

With 60Mbyte you can have all the usual BSD distribution + XFree86 + xview.
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Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
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