[272] in OS/2_Discussion
Re: Price for OS/2 Warp V3 from MCC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin)
Sat Oct 15 16:23:41 1994
To: os2partners@MIT.EDU, waltvk@MIT.EDU
Cc: Pankaj Sarin <psarin@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 15 Oct 1994 12:40:33 -0400.
<199410151640.MAA05576@carbonara.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 16:23:01 EDT
From: Chris Shabsin <shabby@MIT.EDU>
|> Questions:
|> - price of upgrades from OS/2 2.1
|> - price of upgrades from OS/2 2.1 for Windows
If you bought either of these recently enough you would have gotten a
box with a $50 rebate coupon in it, or so I've been told. Other than
that, I don't think there is a deal.
|> - price of upgrades from OS/2 2.1 to OS/2 Warp + TCP/IP total kit
|> (incl XServer etc)
OS/2 3.0 comes with the Internet Access Kit - basically TCP/IP with
only SLIP/PPP support. For an extra $80 you can get NTS/2, the
program to support an Ethernet card. The Internet Access Kit does not
come with the X server or NFS client though, as far as I know, but it
does come with News, WWW reader, Email (I'm not sure how this one
works... It's not LAmail, it's some MIME-compliant reader... not sure
if it'll be possible to get it to do KPop)
The X Server should definitely be available for under $200... Not
sure about the NFS client, actually, I may be wrong and it may come
with the base... I'll have to check this.
|> - cost for upgrades to OS/2 Warp Lan Client, and availability
No clue- availability in 1Q95 (January-March or so, I guess)
|> Is there a MIT license for the TCP/IP and XServer stuff in sight? or
|> do we all have to pay $500+ for it?
I haven't heard anything at all recent. However with the above
developments in TCP/IP pricing there's a much better incentive for me
and other developers to start working on MITnet applications... I'm
hoping to spend some time this IAP (no, really, I mean it this time!)
working on porting some mitnet stuff to OS/2.
I'm also hoping to get SIPB to export an NFS volume of common OS/2
shareware over IAP... This'll be useful to anyone with an OS/2 box
and the NFS client...
PS - anyone know anyone who'll let me do this as an Undergraduate
Project for my course 6 requirements? :)
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