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Re: *Offtopic* Solaris

Kevin Chu (kevin@portal.ca)
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 01:07:38 -0700

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Curt Sampson wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Jesse wrote:
>
> > Ends up being close to $50 canadian by the time it gets across the border and
> > all. Not too bad of a deal, considering what a real solaris license would cost
> > ya.
>
> I find that a bit odd, given that I think mine cost me less than
> US$20. (I had it shipped to New York.) Anyway, it's worth getting,
> I think. It includes one CD for Sparc, one for Intel, and a
> documentation CD. It ran fine on my SS5 once I bumped it up to 64
> MB of memory.

Transaction date Sep 11 1998, Solaris 2.6 Intel, original amount
$43.50 USD, Visa charged me $67.01 CAD, shipped to Burnaby.

Had problems getting it to coexist with DOS/Win3.1, OS/2, and Linux
(Solaris partitioning seemed quite odd to me), haven't tried since.

Kevin

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