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- From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 only on PS/2's? (Was: rift...)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.040650.14056@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <BswDqy.Lwx@world.std.com> <1992Aug14.181642.9454@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:06:50 GMT
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- > OS/2 was not advertised at all. MS sold it for a rediculous price
- > (about $800 for the Standard Edition). IBM sold it for the same
- > price for the PS/2's, so they weren't much better.
-
- I got IBM OS/2 1.2 SE from an IBM dealer for about $200. I don't
- know where the $800 figure comes from, unless it applied to 1.0 and
- 1.1. I sure didn't have that kind of money when I bought 1.2.
-
- By the way, I ran 1.2 SE on a pretty cheesy clone 386sx/16 with 5MB.
- I never had any problems with it. I also got PC-DOS 4.0 from
- the same IBM dealer, and never ran into the bugs everyone was talking
- about.
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