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- From: dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Cable)
- Subject: Re: A letter to Dave Baggett
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.051749.8803@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 05:17:49 GMT
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- Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
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- >>Yes it's true. However, that $15.00 version of OS/2 is a non-registered
- >>beta version which is only liscensed until January 3, 1993. You wouldn't
- >>want to have a pirated OS would you?
-
- >Well, er.. my boss called IBM at the 800 number you provided on
- >Molin's Den (thanks, Dan..!) last Friday, January 8, 1993, and
- >IBM sold him a CD-ROM with OS/2 on it.. with nothing said about
- >it being a beta copy..
- >
- >They said two week delivery, but unofficially to expect it much
- >sooner than that... so I guess we'll see when it gets here..
- >
- >Heck.. at that price, I'm thinking of ordering one too..!
- >
- >BobR
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- Not having it in my possession yet either, I only repeated what has been
- posted in the OS2 newsgroups. Obviously, no one there is terribly
- concerned about it as there were a few folks who just had to set there
- clocks ahead before January 4th just to see what would happen. Nothing did.
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