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- From: mikeo@spider.co.uk (Mike Overton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: DDK Price too high??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.105340.24726@spider.co.uk>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 10:53:40 GMT
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- Seeing the announcement regarding the DDK for NT, it seems that the
- previous excellent NT record w.r.t. the developer has ended.
-
- I am going to the Edinburgh NT conference/show, and have paid my
- #200 (note the amazing pound-dollar conversion - the price implies
- $400 in the US!). Extrapolating the cost of the DDK, it looks like
- that will cost approx #1500. With the cost of hardware dropping like
- a stone, and margins on same being trimmed to the bare minimum, why
- is MS penalizing the hardware guys?.
-
- Come on MS - surely the DDK on CD should be no more than perhaps twice
- the NT pre beta CD. Many excellent references on writing drivers for
- O/S 2, Unix and DOS exist. Even Apple fully publicize the interfaces,
- for the cost of a paperback. With NT looking like the way to go for
- many people, please don't put off the low level developers in this
- way.
-
- Mike Overton - mikeo@spider.co.uk
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