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From: msmith@proton.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: DO$ 5.0, WINDOW$ and QEMM386. Any Problems?
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.234225.27867@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 23:42:25 GMT
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In article <6498@mindlink.bc.ca> Robert_Salesas@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Salesas) writes:
>The use of the dollar symbol ($) as a replacement for the letter S generally
>refers to something that is quite expensive, generally unduly so.  DOS 5.0 is
>NOT expensive.  At $40, there is no way you can call it that.  I imagine then,
>that there must be another reason for your substitution of the S by a $.
>
Actually, the $40 is from Egghead only.  If a person hasn't been lucky enough
to have found out about this deal, then they end up paying $70 to $80.  The 
best that I've seen on the shelves is $70, and that's at one of those 
wharehouse places that sell every thing from groceries to hardware to automotive
to household to sports.  In other words, a little of what ever is popular at the
time.