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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How is DOS selling?
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Date: 29 May 90 19:45:54 GMT
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kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
> that the Macintosh OS is given away free, and people who had pre 6.0.x
> versions of the OS just copied the OS from their friends, IMHO I don't see
> "sales" rates as a valid comparison.

Not to defend the Mac or anything, but I think an ample number of PC
owners have a pirated copy of MS-DOS.  I just wonder how many fewer
questions there would be in comp.sys.ibm.pc if every PC owner had a
well-written manual for their OS and machine...

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