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- From: ramb@venus.osf.org (Ram Balaraman)
- Subject: Re: DDK Price too high??
- In-Reply-To: dwightm@microsoft.com's message of 04 Sep 92 17:55:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep04.175542.12338@microsoft.com> dwightm@microsoft.com (Dwight Matheny) writes:
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- >> Question for all of you. Would you buy a CD only version of the
- >> NT DDK?? Our assumption has been that anyone developing would
- >> definitely want printed documentation, but perhaps we're wrong.
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- I would definitely buy one today if it is available. I would assume that it
- would be reasonably priced like the WIN-NT pre-release for $69 with beta
- and final releases covered for the same price. We do need printed
- documentation, but we would print it out locally the stuff that we need.
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- >> In answering this question, please assume the docs are on the CD
- >> in Winword 2.0 format, and that everyone who buys it will print
- >> out the 900 page overview manual, plus one or two other 800 page
- >> manuals depending on the type of device you're writing. Is all the
- >> effort to print this out (and you must have Winword) worth it??
- >> Let me know.
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- It is still cheaper than springing $500. Some of here are 1-man outfits
- and we should have the same opportunity as big corporations to take a
- shot at developing products without having to spend mega-bucks in the
- beginning.
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- Please consider putting the following the postscript files and the help files
- on the same CD to make it easier on us.
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- Thank you for soliciting our feedback on this matter.
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- _Ram Balaraman
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