Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpnmdla!joeb From: joeb@hpnmdla.hp.com (Joe Barnhart) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: Windowing environments Message-ID: <11750007@hpnmdla.hp.com> Date: 19 Apr 91 18:32:21 GMT References: <1991Apr14.222218.11479@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Organization: HP Network Measurements Div, Santa Rosa, CA Lines: 25 In comp.os.os2.misc, yow@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov writes: |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? I fear you have been the victim of the media's vehement OS/2-bashing. The current MS OS/2 1.2 Toolkit lists for $350, and it contains all the files and information you need to create OS/2 and PM programs ('cept a C compiler, of course). The more expensive IBM kit ($600 list) contains the above, plus additional info on OS/2 1.3, which MS hasn't gotten around to. (As a purchaser of the MS kit, I'd recommend you buy the IBM one instead.) It's been kept more up- to-date, and upgrades have typically been free. The ONLY kit which costs in the neighborhood of $2000 is the (in)famous Microsoft OS/2 2.0 SDK which sells for $2600. OS/2 2.0 is NOT a released product, and this kit is only for commercial software developers, or in- house software developers who NEED access to the next version of OS/2. -- Joe B. #include