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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
- Message-ID: <hatton.727578160@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 01:02:40 GMT
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- goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL) writes:
- >>the main reason why might be perhaps that os/2 1.3 users got free upgrade
- >>to 2.0. No reason why 2.0 users can't get 2.1 free.
- >>
- >Well, their are more than 2-times as many OS/2 v2 users as their were
- >OS/2 1.0-1.3 users *combined*.
-
- >It'll probably be $50.
-
- Somehow I can't carp (personally) about this; for $50 (Win upgrade price
- last year) I have received GA and the first beta, plus the Service Pack.
- Even forgetting diskettes, I view it as an extremely good deal. Plus I
- shudder to think what I would have had to pay MS if they had been in
- charge.
-
- Oops, forgot the $15 splurge on the Nov PDK. But then that brought its own
- set of entertaining toys, so it's pretty hard to gripe.
-
- Certainly compared to whatever I paid for DOS5 to be bundled with the
- system, then the additional for Windows, estimated total $100, I think OS2
- has been extremely good value. Complaining about an additional charge for
- the final 2.1 release seems churlish, especially if it is going towards
- the MS coffers.
- --
- Tom Hatton
- hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
- (415)-476-8693
-