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From: Orc
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 22:07

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In article <42qjqj$kbc@news-2.csn.net>,
David H. Goodlette <dhg@goodco.com> wrote:

>(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

   About $80.

>MS C/C++ probable upgrade price                                 149.95

   Seems reasonable.

>Typical fax pgm upgrade price                                    59.95
>Typical music s/w upgrade price                                 199.95
>Typical FoxPro upgradeprice                                     249.95

   More like $100.

>Borland's probable C/C++                                        149.95

   Why would someone carry around both Microsoft and Borland C++?


>8MB more of ram because you're dreamin' on 8MB			550.00

   $380 if you buy said memory in the United States.

>Extra 540MB hard drive to support the 100MB W95 release		250.00

   $150 if you buy said memory in the United States.

>Memory extender stuff because W95 didn't quite get it right:      $119

   Probably not.

>Better disk compression utilities compatible with other OS's:       99

   Probably not.

>Just about anything else you bought for a conservative average of   75

   Games?  Oh, assume a lot more than that, but it's not really
relevant to upgrading your copy of Windows, is it?


   If you're going to use this way of figuring out the cost of
upgrading to Windows-95, you might as well include another $2500
(to buy a second 586/90) and $200,000 (for the low-end SGI
supercomputer.)


                 ____
   david parsons \bi/ Oh, and don't forget $5000 for a pony.
		  \/

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