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- Subject: Re: OS 2.1 Beta at Waikato soon
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- From: hamish@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:39:07 +1300
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- In article <1993Jan21.140517.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Nick FitzGerald <n.fitzgerald> writes:
- |In article <1993Jan21.085949.13345@waikato.ac.nz>, ccc_rex@waikato.ac.nz writes:
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- |> We FTPed OS 2.1 Beta 3.5" disk distribution to Waikato last night.
- |>
- |> I will make it available for NZ access on ftphost.waikato.ac.nz later today.
- |
- |How is this possible??
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- Easily...
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- |Is IBM in such strife they have released their s/w to the public domain
- |before they finally fold?? 8-)
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- Nope. Personal Systems made a profit last year. (Even if the mainframes did
- lose 5 billion US...
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- |Or is it a "patch kit" which requires an already installed version of
- |OS/2 to load on top of?
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- Nope.
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- Its a full working version (Albeit a beta) of OS/2 2.1
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- It has a limited licence, and assorted bugs. But you can report the bugs to IBM
- and get them fixed :)
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- PS. Yes it is legal. Its actually on IBM's ftp server as well for downloading.
- The theory behind it being get as much exposure as possible and people will
- buy the real thing when it gets released. It worked for 2.0 (Although the
- beta wasn't as wide, it was available from Compu$erve). It will probably
- work even better for 2.1 give the extra people on the Internet c/w C$.
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