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From: gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: Dear Bill Gates, ...
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Date: 30 Jun 91 14:14:32 GMT
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In article <1991Jun29.121501.12819@news.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
:s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) <s64421.678111933@zeus> :
:| 
:| I have just bought a 2nd hand PC.  It is a 'no-name' el cheapo, and I
:| got it from a bloke whose honesty I wouldn't vouch for.  It is loaded
:| with DOS.
:
:Another common scenario:  I purchase a case, a power supply, a motherboard,
:a disk controller, a disk (...a display card, a monitor, a keyboard...).
:
:How is this machine ever to get an initial legal copy of MS-DOS on it?

Easy - don't buy Microsoft.  Try Digital Research instead.