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From: dr@ski.UUCP (David Robins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: disillusionment (aka software rip-offs)
Message-ID: <2410@ski.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 87 01:44:54 GMT
Reply-To: dr@unix.UUCP (David Robins)
Organization: Smith-Kettlewell Institute, S.F., CA.
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In article <> BHUBER@ECLA.USC.EDU writes:
>
>Then I found out why -- MS-DOS, in the one store that actually had a legal
>copy, was on sale for $119.00!  I could talk him down to $100.00; but that
>still is over 10% of the total hardware cost for a PC Transporter I am
>planning (fully loaded for a GS) -- just for the operating system.
>
>Shock and depression in one healthy dose!  Maybe I just went to the "wrong"
>places (most of the "name" brand computer stores were closed yesterday).

I don't know why the above-mentioned cost seems so high.  Operating
systems are an expensive, integral part of any computer system.  In the
minicomputer world, operating systems can run into the few thousnad
dollar range.
-- 
					-dave

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David Robins, M.D.  (ophthalmologist / electronics engineer)
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Foundation
(previously known as: Smith-Kettlewell Institute of Visual Sciences)
2232 Webster St; San Francisco CA 94115
415/561-1705 (voice)
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