Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!linus!mwunix.mitre.org!jcmorris From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: MSDOS v5.0 Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 91 16:18:21 GMT References: <23375@shlump.lkg.dec.com> <1991Jun11.201154.20073@beach.csulb.edu> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA Lines: 35 Nntp-Posting-Host: mwunix.mitre.org bwong@beach.csulb.edu (Bradley Wong) writes: >>Egghead (in New England, don't know about the rest of the country) has >>MSDOS V5.0 in stock right now for $39. Several folks here at DEC have >>already purchased and installed it. >>I would think that other retailers will be getting stock soon. > Egghead in Redondo Beach, CA, has it. The "regular" price will be > $80, the current price is $60, but if you fill out an "instant > discount" info sheet the pirce is $40. > CompUSA has it for $60, also. I saw the upgrade kit in WaldenSoftware yesterday, with a good demonstration of why more math needs to be taught in this country's schools. The "everyday discount" price on the sticker was $74.95; below that on the computer-printed sticker was the note that "Walden Preferred Customers" or whatever can get a 10% discount off that price, making the final cost $71.20 When I asked about this the clerk at least didn't try to blame it on a "computer error"; he just said that the label price was wrong and the 10% discount was correct, making the proper price $67.46 by my calculator. As far as the product itself is concerned I've been running a production copy for some time with only one unfixable problem. A rather old program from the early IBM PDS program line, File Command II (which, oddly enough, is called FC3.COM) worked fine on the late beta versions of DOS 5 but dies a messy death under the shrink-wrap version. (The program is similar to the VM/CMS programs FLIST and FILELIST.) Microsoft was sent the offending program several weeks ago; I'm waiting for a response. Joe