What about a Microport System V/386 3.0.1e --> 3.2.2 Upgrade?

[Dick Dunn]

duc at mport.UUCP (Richard Ducoty) writes about an upcoming letter for
Microport upgrade offers:

> The Runtime trade-in discount is 25%.  The Complete System trade-in discount
> is 40%.  We must receive the original system diskettes and a letter certiying
> that the original system installation has been removed from the hard drive and
> all backup copies destroyed before we can ship the new release at the dis-
> counted price.

Richard, I hope you'll suggest to the people about to put out that letter
that no reasonable person is going to agree to that sort of upgrade
condition!  This isn't quite like trading in a car...

Think from the user's viewpoint:  I'm going to send them my OS floppies,
back up only my files, get rid of the system on my disk, and (therefore)
*shut my machine down* and sit quietly until the upgrade arrives.  At that
point I get to install the upgrade (hoping it works), bring up the new
system, restore my files, and hope that there are no bugs which stop me
from doing my work, 'cause if there are, I can't back out.

Right.
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Dick Dunn     rcd at ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.