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What affected the choice of systems architecture?: Financial considerations

Unix was expensive (00526, 00138) (almost half the original hardware/software budget for phase I - 00009) and if they had gone for Unix in the first place they would not have had to go back and ask for the extra budget (00559) but then they wouldn't have been under budget in the first place.

Social influence:
Organisation: Financial issues
Technical influence:

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