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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Unix or DOS (was Re: Where is the long awaited MS DOS 5.0 ?)
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.070751.24638@nlm.nih.gov>
Date: 7 Jan 91 07:07:51 GMT
Reply-To: werner@bio.NLM.NIH.GOV (Craig Werner)
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	Back when the IBM-PC came out, there were multiple operating
systems for it. PC-DOS sold for $79. CP/M-86(and one other) sold for
$395. The rest is history.
	I have know doubt in my mind that if SCO decided to sell
SysV with DOS/Merge (or do they use VP/ix) for $99, that it would
sell as well as Windows 3.0 (what is it, about 2 million and counting).
	Similarly, OS/2 for $99 would outsell DOS 5.0, but I'll never get
the chance to see this predicion testedif I know IBM.