Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.misc:1796 comp.os.os2.misc:1037 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8755 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!purdue!ccncsu!olender From: olender@parsons.cs.colostate.edu (Kurt Olender) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Windowing environments Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 21:33:55 GMT References: <1991Apr16.153129.26239@afit.af.mil> <1991Apr16.172725.11743@athena.mit.edu> <1991Apr17.083938@riddler.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Apr17.153352.16943@unixg.ubc.ca> Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU Distribution: na Organization: /s/parsons/userb/fac/olender/.organization Lines: 15 Alan Ballard writes: If you're talking about 2.0, it hasn't been released yet; presumably when it is a product IBM and maybe MS will have cheap toolkits for it. If you're taking about 1.x, the programmer's toolkits don't cost anything close to $2000, and haven't since the products were released. I think the confusion comes from the Microsoft OS/2 2.0 SDK, which is the pre-release "beta" version that includes a 32-bit C compiler, etc, specifically intended for those who want to get a jump on everyone else and release their 2.0 apps just when 2.0 is finally released. That as I recall costs about $2000 or so. For the rest of us developing OS/2 applications who are content to wait until the "release" versio nof the development tools come out I'd expect, like Alan, that it would be considerably less than $2k.