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From: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: new windows OS
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Date: 11 Apr 91 21:12:49 GMT
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In article <8414@umd5.umd.edu> bchin@umd5.umd.edu (Bill Chin) writes:
>In article I wrote:
>>I do not know much about os/2 except the following:
>>	1) os/2$ >>>> dos$
>Education price for OS/2 standard edition (everything except LAN and 
>SQL database stuff) at U-MD is < $200

That's great for UMD students ... but what price does "the common man" pay?

>>	2) where are all the applications?
>Excel, Pagemaker, Word, Corel Draw, Lotus 1-2-3/G, etc.
>WordPerfect run in text mode, as well as a bunch of other apps.
>Plus, (hopefully) soon one can run Windows binaries under OS/2.

Mostly uSoft products (as would be expected) ... but what about the miriad 
of shareware/freeware stuff for DOS and/or win3? ... 





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