News article on AT&T
edhall at RAND-UNIX.ARPA
edhall at RAND-UNIX.ARPA
Thu Jun 28 06:44:06 AEST 1984
From: Ed Hall <edhall at RAND-UNIX.ARPA>
As near as I can tell the article is correct, except for its mention
of UNIX being given away to `students' rather than `universities'.
For many years a distribution of UNIX, complete with printed
documentation and reprints of technical articles, could be licensed
for any number of CPU's at an institution of higher learning for a
mere $300 fee. For example, a total of 27 CPU's in the California
State University and Colleges were licensed for one fee--about $11
per CPU. (Only a minority of them actually ended up running UNIX,
though.)
I suppose you can quibble over whether this is actually `giving away'
UNIX, but it is sure close to it. And so far as being a marketing
ploy by AT&T, I don't know if that was the original intention, but
it ended up working out that way.
-Ed Hall
Rand Corporation
Santa Monica, CA
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