25 Jan
2016
25 Jan
'16
7:59 a.m.
On Jan 24, 2016, at 8:55 PM, David Ritchie
<deritchie(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
But wasn't a big part of the reason that DEC was successful in academia that
PDP's were pretty heavily discounted vs. commercial pricing for similar compute
power? Likewise with pricing for Unix?
David Ritchie
UNIX was effectively free for Academics and at the beginning there really wasn’t any
commercial licensing.
I don’t know if DEC offered a heavy academic discount or not. I can tell you they were
cheaper than some of the options.