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- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 stopped selling!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.012811.13158@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <1992Dec12.082639.18197@microsoft.com> <dposey.724189852@well.sf.ca.us> <Bz5zCw.897@newsflash.concordia.ca>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 01:28:11 GMT
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- In article <Bz5zCw.897@newsflash.concordia.ca> patrice@cenparmi.concordia.ca (SCATTOLIN patrice) writes:
- >
- >
- >According to a local software store OS/2 has stopped selling. After
- >looking and not seeing it on the shelves I asked if they were selling OS/2.
- >The salesman said that they had one copy left in stock but it stopped selling
- >a while back blaming a stop in advertising.
- >
- >Is the true around where you are? Why?
- >
- >I tought that sales were picking up, I guess I was wrong.
- >
- I just talked my father-in-law into getting it. :-)
-
- Also, our local Egghead and MicroCenter superstore haved shelves packed
- to the roof with it. Those same shelves used to be packed with Windows
- 3.1. Some will say that this is because Windows sold and OS/2 was left
- over, but I think that most stores tend to display hot-selling items, so
- that people who want them can find them easily. We'll see.
-
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
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