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- From: thg@cam-orl.co.uk (Tim Glauert)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: IBM vs. MS development kit prices?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.083029.8989@cam-orl.co.uk>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 08:30:29 GMT
- References: <1992Jul16.164819.49147@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Jul17.174259.11255@microsoft.com> <22JUL199216591556@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <22JUL199216591556@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>, scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY) writes:
- |> Hey, that's great. Instead of paying $XXX retail or $YYY as an upgrade
- |> from someone else's C++, I can get MSC/C++ 7.0 for $69. Hell, for that
- |> price, I won't even worry about loading the pre-beta version of NT, I'll
- |> just load 7.0.
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- That's MSC/C++ for NT we're talking about, so you have to load NT to run it.
-
- |> Either that or just get the $69 SDK, put it on the shelf,
- |> and get the full blown NT when released for free (an estimated $500 to $999
- |> value).
- |>
- |> What's wrong with this picture?
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- You need a CD-ROM drive and you don't get any paper docs, but otherwise it's a
- great deal.
-
- See comp.os.windows.programmer.win32 for a previous discussion of this.
-