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From: davidsen@rdsunx.crd.GE.COM (William E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: DESQview/X again...
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Date: 17 May 91 12:55:27 GMT
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In article <1163@keele.keele.ac.uk>, csw72@seq1.keele.ac.uk (D.J.
Hulewicz) writes:
|> 
|> At a recent trip to the Computer Shopper Show in London I was told by a
|> Quarterdeck rep. that he expected the UK price of DESQview/X to be
150 pounds
|> but the upgrade price from DESQview 386 will only be 50 pounds. The
basic price
|> will include only the X-Windows type interface without any applications.
|> The price of those will increase the price significantly.

  I got a call from Karen Smith at Quarterdeck, and she indicated that
there was a developer's version now in beta, and that if you filled in
an application you might be allowed to buy a copy for $500. The end user
version is not yet out, but I could file an application to be allowed to
buy a beta test version of that, too. It is expected to be in prerelease
in June and production in September. The price of the end user version
is not set at present, but will be determined by the time the product is
marketed.

  If I read my notes right, the developer version does not include a
window manager, but I can get MOTIF or OpenLook for $500 more.

  Or I can buy PC-NFS and xview and have production software on my desk today.