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Re: Now I am REALLY pissed off!

#6805
From: cbockner
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 15:53
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In <3a6l59$ltg@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU>, s9312643@.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (George Vlahoulis) writes:
>Here is Australia I rung IBM and asked about the price of the cd version of
>warp. She asked me which version, the blue or the red. So I told her,
>unsure which is which, the one with out windows. she told me AUS$179. BUT
>she told me that you MUST have windows to install it. ??????? 
>
>Well I said how about the blue version then I said and see said its coming
>out NEXT YEAR, because of problems with Microsoft.
>
>Please anyone tell me that all this is wrong and especially the fact that
>you need windows to install os2 warp(red). Also anyone comfirm or the
>story about the blue version. Also isnt there a version for JUST os2 no
>windows what soever, not with os2 not for windows.
>
>I am getting frustrated more and more day by day. 
>
>--
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> s9312643@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au 
> s9312643@minyos.xx.rmit.edu.au
> George Vlahoulis 	Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, 
>			Melbourne Victoria Australia.
>
>	A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep
>								-- W.A.Auden
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You don't need Windows to install the Red version, but then you won't be 
able to run Windows programs under OS/2 if you don't.  Didn't matter to me...

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/  Christopher Bockner (cbockner@io.org) / Your idea for my .sig goes                                  /
/                                                         / here.                                                              /
/  Running on OS/2 Warp                        /                                                                      /
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From: cbockner@io.org
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Subject: Re: Now I am REALLY pissed off!
Date: 14 Nov 1994 15:53:34 GMT
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