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Newsgroups: net.micro.6809,net.micro,net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: New CoCo-III's Market Niche (long)
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Date: Mon, 11-Aug-86 12:29:34 EDT
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> I agree 100% -- the OS9/68K support for the ST is way overpriced,
> especially compared to Tandy's pricing on 6809 versions.

OS9 royalties are based on how much money an OEM pays up front.  The more
you pay up front, the less each copy costs you.  Tandy can afford to put
out megabucks for the OS and langauges and then sell them cheaply.  Smaller
companies just don't have the resources to do that (it would probably be a bad
idea even if they could, since I don't think 100,000 people would buy OS9/68K
even at $100 a copy).
-- 
John P. McNamee					Quadratron Systems Inc.

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