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From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Subject: Re: Windowing environments
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In article <1991Apr17.152123@riddler.Berkeley.EDU> yow@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>>The MS 1.x toolkit is available at $350, the MS Softset (which contains all
>>the critical stuff) at $100, the IBM toolkit is about $600, I think. All
>>US dollars).
>
>Does this include the Presentation Manager software kit?  I thought the
>PM stuff was over $2000.00?  
>
>What is in the 1.X toolkit for $350?

All the three above toolkits contain all the necessary tools to create
PM applications. They differ in the amount of Documentation and sample
source code. The MS toolkit, for example contains several volumes of
printed documentation while the softset does not (they can be ordered
independently if one needs not all the books but only some).

Kai Uwe Rommel

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DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams (MS)