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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How is DOS selling?
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Date: 30 May 90 13:34:48 GMT
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In a recent article mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>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...

At the risk of being accused of flaming Microsoft and/or Big Blue, I have
to observe that the publications provided with the (legal, paid-for) copies
of DOS (especially IBM PC-DOS) are not what I would call "well-written
manuals".  This is especially true of DOS 4, where you don't even get all of
the limited material delivered with previous releases.

PS to IBM: That's a HINT, spelled H-I-N-T.