Subject: Re: Well that did it!
To: James Robinson <jrobinson@stisierra.com>
From: Thomas S. Traylor <ttraylor@titan.mcit.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/05/1998 13:40:13
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, James Robinson wrote:

>  Well I just got off the phone from Digital. I found out how much it costs
> for a licience for my 8200. Would you believe $20,000!!! Just for the right
> to run something on it! not even the media..... They said that there
> database didn't go back that far so I have to get a new one.(Hello, Ya
> right!!!) Eventho they said that the licience goes with the cpu!!

If you would like to run VMS on your 8200, check out
http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/.

You can get a licence to run VMS for free.  If you don't have VMS, you
can also obtain OpenVMS 6.1 and OpenVMS 5.5 on cdrom for $30.00 (US).
(along with some other nice software) 

Just a thought.

Tom

> 
> LONG LIVE NETBSD!!!!
> All my thanks to all that have worked on the OS, My most felt Thanks goes to
> you all!!!!!!
> 
> James
> 
> 

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