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Re: Connecticut Man Sells Micrsoft Windows Source Code

Julian Thomas (blackhole@jt-mj.net)
Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:56:45 -0400

In <20050901191858.CF70A153E8@massis.lcs.mit.edu>, on 09/01/05 at
03:18 PM, Joe Morris typed:

> (On the day of the New World announcement IBM
> released four "program products". A headline in a subsequent issue of
> _Computerworld_ read "SURPRISE! Software costs as much as a printer!".
> The reference was to one of the four program products, Generalized
> Information System (GIS), which had a monthly charge (running forever) of
> ~US$1200 (in 1969 dollars!), which was about the same as the monthly
> rental fee for a 1403-N1 1100 lpm printer.

And a festering piece of excrement that was. The GIS Query Editor, in
particular, was buggy with a primitive user interface to boot.

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