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From: kim@mips.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn)
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Subject: Re: COMSPEC ... Warning: Somewhat commercial
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 14:13:04 EST
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> I Repeat: This is somewhat commerical, read at your own risk....
> 
> Now for the bad news, the price.  It is going to be somewhere in the
> $1000-$1500 range (not $800 as mentioned before).  Those figures are
> in $Canadian.  In any case I am *sure* that the price will go down
> if COMSPEC starts getting large orders.

I would surely hope so ... I know of at least one outfit (in Texas) that
is putting the finishing touches on their 8 Meg RAM board.  Retail will
be "less than $2K" ... sure wish they needed some more Beta-testers!


> -commercial programs don't all work from ram: mostly the problems happen
> 	with programs that are too stupid to ask for chip memory when
> 	they need it (see my other article)...  I don't think it would
> 	be wise to name names.  Some *copy protected* (wink, wink,
> 	nudge, nudge) programs don't like being moved into ram)  This
> 	is *VERY* ****V*E*R*Y**** ANNOYING!!!!!!!  At least all the
> 	utilities I tried work fine with ram: under V1.1.


Why not share your experiences with commercial programs?  Software
that doesn't work properly is quite frequently discussed on the net.
Such "exposure" also provides considerable incentive for these manufacturers
to *fix* their products.  I'm sure such information would be appreciated by
*most* people on the net.

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