On Thu 15 Apr 2004 at 13:31:06, Arthur Moore said: > windows is very cheap. $200 for an operating system? before windows came > along and made a personal all purpose OS, software was very expensive.
Cost of HP-UX license, unlimited users: $500 Cost of HP J6750: $23,000 OS's percent of total: 2.1% Cost of Unicos License, unlimited users: $5000 Cost of Cray X1: $5000000 OS's percent of total: 0.010% Cost of Windows, single seat: $150 Cost of hardware: $800 OS's percent of total: 16% No, Windows isn't cheap. -- Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://theboard.byu.edu/ "Americans are always attempting to run away from conformity, but unfortunately they always start running in the same direction." -- Art Buchwald
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