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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Beta 2.1 in IBM-BBS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.034841.16292@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 03:48:41 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.011337.773@news.columbia.edu> <1993Jan1.233612.24408@midway.uchicago.edu> <1id0kjINNqgc@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
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- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1id0kjINNqgc@rave.larc.nasa.gov> jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () writes:
- >>On the other hand, you can obtain it for $15 by calling 800-3-IBM-OS2.
- >>On CD-ROM, granted. In the U.S., granted. Also, the license
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>accompanying this CD-ROM permits you to use the code for a limited
- >>time, and it permits you to distribute up to 10 copies "within your
- >>organization." You may interpret the word "organization" broadly, I
- >>suppose.
- >But what about us poor schmucks who have OS/2 2.0 running on our machines,
- >want to (*very* willing to!!!) run OS/2 2.1 BETA on our systems, BUT DON'T
- >HAVE A CD-ROM DRIVE ???????
-
- If you have access to any CD-ROM drive (on any DOS or OS/2 machine)
- you can "manufacture" the install diskettes yourself.
-
- I believe the principle reason why there's no diskette distribution
- this time is because of the time lag. It takes longer to press
- diskettes and get them distributed. This code would get too stale.
- By the time you get the diskettes this 2.1 beta may go golden.
-
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