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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Getting Turbo C cheaply
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Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 10:31:00 EST
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Nov 10 09:31:00 1987


The idea of these almost giveaway prices is to get students and faculty hooked
on a particular brand of product in the hope that they will go out into the real 
world and influence their employer's buying habits. This works great for all
companies except IBM. The reasoning in that case works like this:  "If IBM
gives us, a really big outfit, (the University of Illinois) all this stuff,
and them gives us such poor (i.e. none at all) support, just imagine what
support they will give a small company or an individual." The amount of help
I've got from IBM is zero. The amount of useful help I've got from our
contact with IBM is a 30 minute peek at a model 50/60 tech refernce manual.

Doug McDonald