Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!att!iuvax!maytag!watstat.waterloo.edu!dmurdoch
From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Windows Run-Time
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.165656.14903@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 16:56:56 GMT
References: <11485.2400.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu> <4822@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Sender: daemon@maytag.waterloo.edu (Admin)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Lines: 18

In article <4822@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
>All users are required to have
>the full product. I think that's good. This allows them to use the
>other tools included with Windows, like Program Manager, File Manager,
>Write and Paintbrush or even Terminal, the others are toys. Also,
>Windows 3.0 is really cheap to get. MS anounced here that any users of
>2.x runtime versions can upgrade this to the FULL 3.0 product for the
>same price as the upgrade from 2.x full product to 3.0 and I have
>already done this once for a runtime which came with Excel 2.1.

This must really limit your market, though.  Take me for example:  I don't
have much free disk space, and just don't have room for the reported 10 Megs
of Windows 3.  I imagine that could be reduced by judicious pruning, but
MS usually doesn't provide installation programs that are smart enough to
do that easily.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu