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- From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
- Subject: Re: IBM screws U again
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.185602.7598@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:56:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.194153.8726@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <hatton.724402476@cgl.ucsf.edu>
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- In <hatton.724402476@cgl.ucsf.edu> hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
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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.
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- >>IBM is to be congratulated on yet another brilliant marketing scheme.
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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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- >>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.
-
- Yeah, just like the cost of Microchannel hardware went down...NOT!
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- Cheers,
- Q
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