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From: woan@nowhere (Ronald S Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Why PC DOS 5.0 = $100 & MS 5.0 = $40
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Date: 18 Jun 91 21:58:10 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.011419.5625@socrates.umd.edu>
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In article <1991Jun18.011419.5625@socrates.umd.edu> cm320a15@socrates.umd.edu (Arnie Unger) writes:
>   In a mailing that I got from Egghead today, the much touted
>MS-DOS 5.0 is only $40 with the instant rebate (just fill out
>the required questionaire).  I guess this is an upgrade price
>only?  In the same mailing they advertise the complete IBM
>PC-DOS 5.0 (for purists) for $100, including the instant
>rebate.

Egghead sells the IBM PCDOS upgrade version for the same price as the
MSDOS version. The higher price is for the licensed IBM PCDOS,
assuming that you didn't have an earlier version/license to upgrade
from. I don't think that MS has a non upgrade version of 5.0 yet.



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