bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) (04/09/90)
In article <19520@grebyn.com>, ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes: > Like, how much am all this business gonna set me back?? > > I had assumed something like $200, which would fall near my own personal > threshold of total pain for such a thing, but at least one of the yuppie > stores around here is saying $600, and this one is the low-rate > yuppie store and, if this is not some kind of a mistake, then it appears > to be time to make the jump to ESIX (around $600 from Programmers' Shop) > and say a final farewell to Gates, Microsoft et. al. at this juncture. What pieces are you talking about? Just Windows 3.0 for a 286, Windows 3.0 for a 386 (since we're not sure yet if they will be packaged separately like they are for Windows 2.*), the SDK, or what? What about the cost of upgrading from a previous version of Windows? If it's just for the OS, no C compiler or SDK, then I have a hard time believing it ... that's around twice the cost of OS/2, after all!! I have a suspicion that either the store was quoting more than just the OS, or else that they didn't really know and were trying to cover their a** so that they didn't lose money on the quote. Bruce C. Wright