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- From: amitp@ruf.rice.edu (Amit J Patel)
- Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
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- Organization: Rice University
- References: <1jip6uINNrn2@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <ePFoXB9w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <1993Jan20.160446.25054@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:05:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.160446.25054@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, gchalk@nyx.cs.du.edu (Geoff Chalk) writes:
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- |> I would like to remind everybody that is complaning that there might be
- |> (and most likely will be) a charge for the upgrade to OS/2 2.1
- |> that yesterday (1/19/93) IBM declared 4th quarted\r losses of
- |> over $5,000,000,000.00.....yup thats % billion dollars for
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- Looks like we need 64-bits to store that number. :^)
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- |> OCT, NOV, & DEC 92!!!
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- |> and remember that the new version will come w/ almost $20 worth of
- |> diskettes!!
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- |> IMHO...stop complaining if you want to keep getting upgrades!!
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- I agree! :)
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- I read somewhere that this is the biggest loss any company has ever
- had in a quarter... :(
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