[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Bob Koehler]

In article <d3a09e3f-714f-4988-8eb0-5b199a71b6b4 at j5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> OK, one more time.
> 
> The vast majority of real-world commercial AlphaStation customers with
> a Motif or NAS150 licence would not have paid "a great deal of money"
> for it, because it would have been part of the bundle when they bought
> the system, and it would have been at a very very very attractive
> bundled price, much less than the standalone price.

   We actually had a system where the owner got themselves into a corner
   and had to buy a separate DECwindows license.  It was not terribly
   expensive.

   And it was somewhat thier own fault.  DEC tried to give them
   DECwindows licneses for free for all their systems just several
   months before.