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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: IBM screws U again
- Message-ID: <hatton.724402476@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 06:54:36 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.194153.8726@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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- jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- >The Radius XGA-2 card will RETAIL (not "List") for $499 because IBM wants
- >to bleed Radius for licensing fees. Thus, IBM screws over Radius, who
- >will lose a lot of sales (me, for one), the typical OS/2 customer who
- >wants a faster system, and themselves all at once.
-
- >IBM is to be congratulated on yet another brilliant marketing scheme.
-
- >This is clearly a good example why Windows NT presents such a threat to
- >the upper level OS market. Microsoft might just care about it's customers
- >(unlike Big Blue) and take out the market right out from under them.
-
- >Anybody know where I can get an NT beta???
-
- This is very sad - at about $250-300 it would probably have moved
- units like crazy. Oh, well. One more goof for the list. Perhaps
- time will help get enough sold to bring down the price within a
- reasonable period. I'll limp along un-coprocessed until then.
-
-
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- Tom Hatton
- hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
- (415)-476-7986
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