>> Microsoft charges you almost nothing to get started.
>
>This seems to have changed somewhat in the last 2-3 years. Product
>upgrades now cost as much as the whole product used to, and
>heaven help you if you don't own an old copy to upgrade.  The entry
>prices have gotten quite impressive for many Microsoft products.
>
>G.

This is exactly why we still use a lot of terminals. If you look at what
"low" cost PC's really cost, they really are not that cheap.

Greg Stigers wrote:
>I believe that Sequents running their brand of UNIX and AS/400s both
>offer PCs under the chassis, running flavors of DOS and Windows, for
>certain tasks. Perhaps someone with actual experience on these boxes
>could explain this in more meaningful detail.

My wife works at Sequent and I've seen some of the propaganda they put
out... from what I can tell they can run both Unix and NT on the same
box. If they got there act together and lost the CEO and his daughter's
expensive tastes the company could do alot. It sounds like they have some
killer hardware and software, it's just the cost is overly inflated.