Re: $99 Tru64 Libraries (was Re: Java & Linux Alpha?)

[<ppetrakis firestorm tzo org>]

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Charles E. Taylor IV wrote:

> 
> On 08-Dec-99 Rich Payne wrote:
> 
> > It already does run Tru64 executable, but you need Tru64 libraries to go
> > along with that ($99  non-commecial or $1200 commercial).
> 
> ...
> So, has anyone bought the $99 DU just for the libraries yet?  And if so, any
> trouble getting what you need to run Netscape?  $99 does seem a large price to
> pay to run a "free" program, though.

I still have 4.0 D libraries running NS 4.6, I haven't bothered to get the
new non-commercial one yet. It is very easy to get the Tru64 libraries
installed, see http://www.alphalinux.org/docs/netscape_du.shtml. Besides
being able to run Netscape and Adobe Acrobat Reader you can run most any
Tru64 application like for example Mathematica (which costs as much as
the commercial version of Tru64).  

Peter
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