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- From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
- Subject: Re: IBM screws U again
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.135229.4538@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec14.194153.8726@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1992Dec15.161040.23222@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:52:29 GMT
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- >In <1992Dec14.194153.8726@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- >>The Radius XGA-2 card will RETAIL (not "List") for $499 because IBM wants
- >>to bleed Radius for licensing fees. Thus, IBM screws over Radius, who
- >>will lose a lot of sales (me, for one), the typical OS/2 customer who
- >>wants a faster system, and themselves all at once.
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- Don't forget that Radius will be marketting this in Canada and Europe. I
- wonder how much of the cost to meet standards other than FCC will be
- passed on to U.S. customers?
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- I agree, though, I won't buy it at this price. I can't believe that the
- price of an ISA card is MUCH MORE than an MCA card...
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- >>This is clearly a good example why Windows NT presents such a threat to
- >>the upper level OS market. Microsoft might just care about it's customers
- >>(unlike Big Blue) and take out the market right out from under them.
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- Well, If we could get a good set of drivers out of ATI, etc. we'd have no
- need for the XGA-2, right? I blame this more on the abandoning of OS/2
- earlier by M$, rather than IBM themselves. Unfortunately for IBM, they
- are going to have to be the ones that fix the problems, if they want OS/2
- to succeed.
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- Jeff
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