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Tonio Loewald (tonio@jolt.mpx.com.au) wrote:

: and a fair bit on after sales support, etc. The big money will be in
: selling Office 95 and replacements for all the other things that won't
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: work quite right until you upgrade.


(WARNING: ALL FIGURES BELOW REPRESENT MY OWN OPINION AND HAVE NOT
BEEN VERIFIED AS TO THEIR ACCURACY)

for a nice low price of PROBABLY                                149.95
MS C/C++ probable upgrade price                                 149.95
Typical fax pgm upgrade price                                    59.95
Typical music s/w upgrade price                                 199.95
Typical FoxPro upgradeprice                                     249.95
Borland's probable C/C++                                        149.95

8MB more of ram because you're dreamin' on 8MB			550.00
Extra 540MB hard drive to support the 100MB W95 release		250.00

Memory extender stuff because W95 didn't quite get it right:      $119
Better disk compression utilities compatible with other OS's:       99
Just about anything else you bought for a conservative average of   75

                                                                -------
Out of your pocket to support your W95 upgrade                  $2052.70


$2052.7 * 50,000,000 very unlucky DOS users = 1.02635e11
(thats $102,635,000,000, OR ONE HUNDRED BILLION) more dollars
spent in the computer industry to support Bill and his industrial
strength proprietary prone cronies.

(WARNING: ALL FIGURES ABOVE REPRESENT MY OWN OPINION AND HAVE NOT
BEEN VERIFIED AS TO THEIR ACCURACY)


Compare to an average full featured Linux system on CD-ROM complete
with all networking tools, all development tools, X-windows, etc., with
printed manual, some support, and maybe even a subscription to
the Linux Journal, and COMPLETE WITH ALL THE SOURCE CODE:

                                      average estimate of: UNDER $100.00


Of which, in some cases, portions of the costs are donated to the
developers directly or to support the free and unfettered access
to superior software.

Any questions?


The above does assume you might want both MS and Borland compilers
in case you're trying to write software libraries and want to test
them with more than one compiler.  I have both myself.  I base
the above figures on previous experience upgrading first from a
286 to a 486, then a faster 496 later on.  However, note that

ALL FIGURES ABOVE REPRESENT MY OWN OPINION AND HAVE NOT
BEEN VERIFIED AS TO THEIR ACCURACY!

Thank you.
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Dave (Goodbits) Goodlette                                        dhg@goodco.com
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