Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!atropa!berger From: berger@atropa (Dire Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 soon? Message-ID: <1991Feb7.220816.13113@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 7 Feb 91 22:08:16 GMT References: <19770001@hpctdpa.HP.COM> <1991Feb1.222609.6564@val.com> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 12 jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes: >seeing (or likely to see) the problems they fix. Considering the number >of customers in the field the costs of distributing so many updates would >run up the price of the product to mainframe levels. Comments? *---- Yes - they could distribute fixes and patches on a BBS like Western Digital, Central Point Systems, etc. and make it very cheap. -- Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu