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From: jwohl@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl)
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Subject: Re: Windowing environments
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Date: 18 Apr 91 16:09:24 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.172725.11743@athena.mit.edu> mondomon@athena.mit.edu (Allan S. MacKinnon) writes:
>
>Speaking of how 'much' OS/2 will set you back:
>
>The New York Times (4/16) had an article that stated IBM was cutting
>the price of OS/2 starting tomorrow.
>			   --------
>
>	Specifically: SE from $340 -> $150
>		      EE from $830 -> $690
>
>Sounds good to me.  I wonder if student prices still apply?  If so
>that would be ridiculously cheap, as far as bang for the buck.  I
>guess there is no longer a reason for people to say it is too
>expensive.  Now they can just complain that there is no software out
>there! :-)

And I haven't paid a single upgrade charge (not even shipping!) since
1.0.  Since Windows 1.0, I've could've bought several SEs with MS's
upgrade costs.
-- 
Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / jwohl@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu