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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.att
Subject: AT&T Device Driver Manuals (was Re: "UNIX Programming on the 80286/80386")
Summary: The damn price went up :-(
Message-ID: <913@vsi.COM>
Date: 28 Oct 88 04:13:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: vsi.913
References: <322@cocktrice.UUCP> <13398@lll-winken.llnl.gov>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <13398@lll-winken.llnl.gov>, bowles@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Jeff A. Bowles) writes:
>
> I am quoting from "Unix(r) System V Release 3 Block and Character
> Interface (BCI)  Driver Development Guide," (AT&T Select Code 307-191),
>
> [quote deleted]
> 
> This is the document AT&T offered for $4 before someone realized that
> there was a price error in their database and they changed the price to
> about $80(!). I ordered BEFORE the change, but they charged my AmEx
> account the higher price - I'll let 'em slug it out. Be warned, though.

I put up the original announcement about these AT&T Device Driver
books, and the first prices were about $4 each.  They corrected this
bug on or about Monday, 22-Aug-1988, so if you got caught in the
same boat as Jeff did, you may want to check this date against
your credit card bills.

It seems to me that quoting one price and charging another without
notice is a pretty raw deal -- they could have at least called or
sent a note first.

Go for it.

    Steve

P.S. - I got *my* copies at the low rate.  Nyah, nyah, nyah :-)

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