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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: Novell just bought Unix?
- Message-ID: <C06L0n.5xv@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1haon0INNfdh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1hqf94INNm84@chnews.intel.com> <90@nearside.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 15:14:47 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- shwake@nearside.UUCP (Raymond Shwake) writes:
- }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.
-
- That depends on what you call a "few". I just looked, we have
- slighly over 15MB and that's with compressed man pages. I
- expect it would be close to 50MB uncompressed. [DEC Ultrix]
-
- } 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.
-
- and another 600MB on CD-ROM.
-
-
- John
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