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systemBuilder
on April 7, 2021
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A bit of XENIX history (2014)
Pretty unusual strategy charging $2000-$9000 per copy of an operating system for a computer that retailed for $4995 at introduction (PC-XT).
bombcar
on April 8, 2021
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Software was often much more expensive than hardware in the early days of computing - it was much later that the $100 or so “max limit” became relatively common.
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