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Article #6030Re: cheap PC and pirated DOS/WINDOWS
From: Mike Berger
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 17:58
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 17:58
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newsmann@gmath.uum.edu writes: >I bought a 286 two years ago from the cheapest PC store in the area. They >installed DOS and some other softwares, with no manuals or anything. So I >guess that is not a legal copy. They did a good business and now opened >another store in the area. Last I visited, they sell DOS with systems. That >is, DOS with manuals. Of course their prices are not cheapest anymore. >I bought another PC, a 486DX-33, from a now cheapest store in the area. >They installed DOS and WINDOWS for me. no manuals. The receipt only >listed hardware cost, no softwares. >I never had/have any problems with those PCs, hardware or software wise. >I was wondering if all those cheap stores competing with bigger ones >initially with pirated copies of DOS or Windows. *---- It sure sounds like it. I don't think Microsoft authorizes OEM's to install DOS or Windows without supplying disks and manuals too. -- Mike Berger Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!atropa!berger From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger) Subject: Re: cheap PC and pirated DOS/WINDOWS References: <0001@gmath.uum.edu> Message-ID: <BxGnA9.2ML@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:58:55 GMT Lines: 21