Re: DO$ 5.0, WINDOW$ and QEMM386. Any Problems?

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From: Mr. J. Berry Rogers
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 14:12

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In article <1991Jun27.234225.27867@serval.net.wsu.edu> msmith@proton.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes:
>In article <6498@mindlink.bc.ca> Robert_Salesas@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Salesas) writes:
>>The use of the dollar symbol ($) as a replacement for the letter S generally
>>refers to something that is quite expensive, generally unduly so.  DOS 5.0 is
>>NOT expensive.  At $40, there is no way you can call it that.

>Actually, the $40 is from Egghead only.  If a person hasn't been lucky enough
>to have found out about this deal, then they end up paying $70 to $80...

Actually, the best price going around here is roughly $55 at CompUSA.  Bizmart
was close at $59...  And so far the only problem I have had is with the
America OnLine software, which I got up and running after reading the manual
about SETVER.EXE  (and asking a friend who works for IBM :0)  )


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From: xxberry@utacnvx.uta.edu (Mr. J. Berry Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: DO$ 5.0, WINDOW$ and QEMM386. Any Problems?
Keywords: MSDOS 5.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.141232.21733@cse.uta.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 14:12:32 GMT
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