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Posted by: Metalchic on 2008-01-13 18:17:01
umm, given that $795 for the manuals and the CDROM i'm never going to use/get to use A/UX, thats kinda really hefty on the price. like REALLY REALLY hefty. like if i had 800$ i would buy a mac mini not a single pice of software.
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Posted by: alk on 2008-01-13 19:59:31
Good for you. If you don't know what A/UX is and why you won't pay that price anyway, then you should probably think twice about posting to threads like these lest you be labeled a troll.
Peace,
Drew
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Posted by: QuadSix50 on 2008-01-14 04:51:42
umm, given that $795 for the manuals and the CDROM i'm never going to use/get to use A/UX, thats kinda really hefty on the price. like REALLY REALLY hefty. like if i had 800$ i would buy a mac mini not a single pice of software. Most commercial UNIX operating systems, even today, are quite expensive to begin with. I think the only exception is Mac OS X, but when you take into consideration the price of OS X Server then it's not that much different.
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Posted by: Cory5412 on 2008-01-14 06:56:25
Agreed with Alk, it's one of those situations where it's best not to say anything, if that which you have to say isn't helpful in any way/shape/form.
Re: cost of unices. What I've noticed is that the best way to get a license to use a UNIX OS is actually to buy the vendor's support contract. I think the $1500/year contract is the only way to get AIX for example, and it's the best way to get SGI IRIX media. I'm sure the situation was the same for SunOS/Solaris back before they decided to do free hobbyist licensing.
Of course, in 1992/1993 when A/UX 3 was new, I'm sure that $800 wasn't really too much for A/UX, especially given it was a system on which you could do unix development and networking, as well as run standard Mac apps. Although the mac you'd run it on would cost a pretty penny (something like a Mac IIci or a Quadra 610, presumably would work fine) it would probably still cost less to get a mac and laserwriter with a/ux than to get a comparable Sun/SGI/IBM/Alpha (or whatever) box.
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Posted by: Metalchic on 2008-01-14 11:28:18
well i said somthing in the hopes that somone would turn up with al ink to a version that wasent so pricy. i wasent trying to troll 🙁
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Posted by: ~tl on 2008-01-14 11:49:54
You do realise that A/UX 3 was released in 1992 and that it hasn't been sold for a number of years now (since 1995 ish IIRC). The prices listed on the FAQ are just the RRP from when it was new... they don't really apply now!
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Posted by: Metalchic on 2008-01-14 13:10:17
i couldent find a date on the page D=
so is irt okay to d/l it for free then?
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2008-01-14 13:49:48
Can a mod split this thread from the FAQ sticky?
Done ~tl
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Posted by: MultiFinder on 2008-01-14 16:22:51
so is irt okay to d/l it for free then? Legally, no. You can't legally download it for free.
Would anyone really care if you did? Prolly not.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2008-01-14 22:35:25
I try to have legit software when I can get it for my collection, just got stuffit expander deluxe 5.5 in the mail today (everyone pirates that).
I don't think Apple will hang you if they found out you had a pirate copy of A/UX (I don't think S Jobs cares about anything sold by Apple he had nothing to do with), but they will have a fit if you run a server distributing their old software and they find out(they have to).
Apple probably never released A/UX for free like they did OS 6.08,7.01,7.5.5 etc because they might not own all of it to release it. A/UX was a port of AT&T (at the time) UNIX so its not up to Apple to release it free.
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Posted by: Metalchic on 2008-01-14 23:14:34
i see well i can stick with my Windows 2003 Server then. (i just wanted to try running a mac server lol)
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2008-01-14 23:28:30
Windows 2000 Server was the last version that had Appleshare support, just to let you know (its nice being able to get my old 68k and PPC machines to grab files natively from a Mac share on a Windows machine).
I have an AWS 95 with legit copies of A/UX 3.1, but the Win2k server is easier and more efficient to use (since I can dump my Amiga and PC files on the same server).
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Posted by: Metalchic on 2008-01-14 23:51:59
2003 server has it just not as a default install, just like all windows xp era operateinsyystemss
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Posted by: bmacsys on 2008-01-30 05:21:46
well i said somthing in the hopes that somone would turn up with al ink to a version that wasent so pricy. i wasent trying to troll 🙁 Why weren't you just more straightforward about it in the first place?
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