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From: nts0302@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (Bob Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How is DOS selling?
Message-ID: <2206@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>
Date: 30 May 90 11:45:21 GMT
References: <8m5XJ4w162w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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From article <8m5XJ4w162w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, by mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst):
} 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...

Don't forget about all of us who got DOS bundled with a new system and only
got minimal documentation.  What I got with my system doesn't tell much of
the story.  I still refer back to my old manual (DOS 3.3) even though I
now use DOS 4.01.

-- 
Bob Fisher
US Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center
DSAC-TSX, Box 1605, Columbus, OH 43216-5002     614-238-9071 (AV 850-9071)
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