Dear IBM Remarketer:

On April 17, 1991 IBM made some very significant OS/2
announcements that are of substantial importance to you and your
customers.  Following is an overview of those announcements:

* IBM reaffirmed its commitment to OS/2, both for now and for the
  future.

* Announced significant price reductions for OS/2 Standard
  Edition Version 1.3 (now only $150 retail) and OS/2 Extended
  Edition Version 1.3 (now only $690 retail).

* Demonstrated (via IBM's world-wide satellite TV network from
  New York) OS/2 Version 2.0, to be delivered by year-end 1991.

* Announced a planned upgrade from DOS to OS/2 Version 1.3 ($99
  to OS/2 SE and $635 to OS/2 EE), and a FREE upgrade from OS/2
  Version 1.3 to OS/2 Version 2.0 before year-end.

* Announced that OS/2 Communications Manager and Database
  features will be unbundled from OS/2 EE and offered separately
  as an optional add-on to OS/2 SE.

The most exciting part of this important announcement, by far,
was that OS/2 Version 2.0 would be the operating system to meet
your every need.

Regardless of whether you have DOS programs, Windows programs, or
OS/2 programs, you can run them all directly and unmodified on
OS/2 Version 2.0.

It runs your DOS programs better and with more available memory
than with DOS.  And it will run as many of those DOS programs
concurrently as you have memory for.  It even lets you boot up
DOS in a DOS window!

It run Windows programs (doesn't matter which version of Windows
they were meant to run on) better than with Windows.  And it runs
OS/2 programs better than with the best OS/2 so far, Version 1.3.

With OS/2 Version 2.0, you won't need any other operating system.

If I can assist you in making OS/2 the operating system of choice
for your 386/486 customers, please call the IBM NDD National
Support Center at (800) IBM-PROD.

                                        Sincerely,
                                        Dave Both