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From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Subject: Re: Request for information from OS/2 neophyte
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.080435.29261@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 08:04:35 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.211632.4960@colorado.edu> bradleyt@spot.Colorado.EDU (Todd Bradley) writes:
>powerful operating system.  I've been trying for the past
>week, after reading in the Wall Street Journal that IBM
>just cut the price drastically, to get some information
>about how to get OS/2 and what exactly it is.  Everywhere
>I turn I hear somebody talking about it but I can't find
>any hard facts.  It seems to be completely ignored by the
>pc software market.  The university bookstore here doesn't
>carry it and doesn't know how to order it (although they
>can tell me the student discount rate is $350).  My two
>favorite software stores (including the largest in the
>state) don't carry OS/2 or any OS/2 applications.  And the
>fact that there is a newsgroup devoted to it makes think
>this operating system must exist, but I can't find any
>evidence other than hearsay.

You can order it from ANY IBM dealer. I got my copy from a Computerland
store. It is 1.3 standard edition and it was $265 plus tax with *no*
discounts, i.e. it is the regular version/price.

>Using DOS/Windows only for lack of a better solution,

I'm already happy with 1.3 and if 2.0 really is what it is said to be,
nice computing times are going to start ...

Kai Uwe Rommel

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