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- From: shwake@nearside.UUCP (Raymond Shwake)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Novell just bought Unix?
- Message-ID: <90@nearside.UUCP>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:05:39 GMT
- References: <1h7tsjINNc62@chnews.intel.com> <1992Dec22.235412.25470@cs.uwp.edu> <1haon0INNfdh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1hqf94INNm84@chnews.intel.com>
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- bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
-
- >USL for PCs should cost exactly what Windows-NT is
- >introduced at. Add another $100 for online documentation
- >(like your PC has that kind of disk space; make it
- >$200-$300 if you want it on CD-ROM with a whizzy graphical
- >browser) and a couple grand for the sources, if you think
- >that's wise.
-
- The writer considerably overstates the requirements for on-line
- documentation. A complete set of "man" pages takes perhaps a few MB
- at most. As far as graphical browsers, I'm running USL's Destiny
- product on a 386 with a single 80 MB disk, and that *includes* the
- graphic/hypertext Help Desk. That's not to say that yet more info
- couldn't be available. Both HP and IBM provide massive amounts of
- such data through their help facilities, and they *do* use CD-ROM
- for that.
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