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From: schafer@devils.is.rice.edu (Richard Alan Schafer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0beta availability
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Date: 25 Apr 91 21:14:04 GMT
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According to what I read on the IBM OS2 BBS, the reason for the 
method of downloading is to make it so that only people with serious
interest in the beta version will take the time (and cost) of 
getting the materials.