WANUGA@MIT-XX@sri-unix.UUCP (09/24/83)
From: Thomas S. Wanuga <WANUGA@MIT-XX> I am interested in anyone's experiences with CP/M-86 and Final Word. Has anyone used Final Word with CP/M-86 on their IBMPC? Does anyone know why the price of CP/M-86 has dropped from $240 to $60 (Computerland and Sears are selling it for $60, IBM Product Center is still charging $240)? Tom
diamant@cwruecmp.UUCP (John Diamant) (09/28/83)
I can't give any information on the Final Word or running CP/M-86 because I use MS-DOS. As to the question of why the price of CP/M-86 was dropped to $60, it was to make it competitive with MS-DOS. I don't have the statistics available, but I believe MS-DOS was significantly outselling CP/M-86, and this is an attempt to gain some more of the market share. Considering the flexibility of DOS 2.0 (also $60) and the original price of CP/M, Digital Research was pricing themselves out of the market. John Diamant Usenet: ...decvax!cwruecmp!diamant CSNet: diamant@Case ARPA: diamant.Case@Udel-Relay