Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!jpradley!shawn
From: shawn@jpradley.jpr.com (Shawn Blair)
Subject: Re: To buy or not to buy?
Organization: NYC Public Unix
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 01:44:15 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.014415.15373@jpradley.jpr.com>
References: <28060B2B.20860@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>

In article <28060B2B.20860@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> mlevy@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Michael Levy) writes:
>Hi there,
>	I received from coherent a brochure to buy 6Mbytes of Coherent
>Compatible software that has been pulled of the MWC BBS. They want $40 for
>it. Does anyone know whether you get "better" documentation or if there are
>any other reasons to purchase the software instead of downloading them from
>an FTP site. My guess is that they are making it cheaper for users with a modem
>to get a hold of the software. Any comments?
>
  Reasons for paying the $35 would include inability to uucp all the software
from mwcbbs to your own machine, lack of access to the ftp sites, general
laziness (no critisism there :>).  I think the real deal is the $39 driver
developer package.


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