** Reply to note from SurvPC Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 25 Mar
1999 12:56:32 -0600
>
> It would be nice if MS wasn't so
> greedy, and made obsolete software available to individuals at a realistic
> price. Who can afford to pay $180 for an operating system for a $200
> machine? I'm sure MS has recovered it's development cost for Win3.x and
> Win95, and probably turned a profit.
>
Old Apple-Macintosh systems can be downloaded free.
IBM sold Warp3 for 7-20 USD when Warp4 was released. It was also distributed with
various magazines.
Solaris can be had for some 40 USD. (Or less)
Linux (5 cd+ a manual) is some 70 USD (99 DEM for SUSE-Linux)
DR-DOS....
MS certainly is to greedy.
Per B
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