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Re: [LUG] BBC news clip - I thought it may be of interest ?

 

Quoting Viv and Philip <vh_griffin@xxxxxxxxx>:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6144782.stm
>
>
Wow, £50 quid on the cost of a Dell machine is a fair whack considering 
they sell PCs cheap anyway.  Thats good news anyway and will make me 
think more highly of Dell.

I wonder if other such companies would do the same or if they would be 
more reluctant?

IIRC a year or two back Dell did offer PCs with no operating system.  I 
believe they installed MS-DOS 6 or something on the machines so they 
were not sold as 'naked PCs' as Microsoft put it as something like 
MS-DOS 6 is still a valid operating system even if it isn't much use 
these days.

Rob




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