From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 9 17:52:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13513 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 17:52:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA13436 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 17:52:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-159.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.159]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA03923 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 19:52:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19147 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 19:18:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199806100018.TAA19147@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Dell 8) In-reply-to: Message from Bill Paul of "Tue, 09 Jun 1998 12:05:47 PDT." <199806091905.MAA11228@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 19:18:08 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Paul writes: > How did you determine this? My impression is that they always let you > buy machines without Lose95/LoseNT, but only if you place the order by > phone and explicitly instruct the salesdroid not to include it with the > purchase, not if you try to buy something off their 'online store' on > their web server. Go to www.dell.com, select their online store, then > choose a system type at random and try to customize it. Scroll down to > the 'Operating System' selection and check the choices they offer. Recently I had occasion to be studying Gateway's "server" offerings on their online web store. An operating system was not included. Presumed (didn't check, wasn't interested) to be an extra cost item. There *was* an OS pop up menu to choose from. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message