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Re: software upgrades (was Re: Paying for Shareware)

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From: Ralf.Brown
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1991 12:07
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In article <1991Mar25.175223.12305@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, braner@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) wrote:
}Examples?  Well how about Borland's Turbo C++, or Quattro Pro.
}($500 list?  What ever happened to the $50-Turbo-Pascal company?)

On the other hand, whatever happened to the 160K Turbo Pascal distribution?
(yeah, that's right, TP 1.0 didn't quite fill a 160K disk)  15+ megs for
BC++ 2.0?  Eeek!

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