(Excerpts from a message dated 10-25-99, George White to Andy Roberts)

Hi George--

 GW>> There is only one retail version of Warp 4.

 AR> Actually there are several, as you and Linda have seen from other
 AR> msgs.  And now that I think about it there is 1 more version, that
 AR> no one else mentioned in this thread.  The Academic Version, which
 AR> comes without the Mic-HeadSet.

GW>I'm not sure what is still available in the USofA, but over here the
  >only version readily available is the standard, full version. The
  >"upgrade" version was (is?) exactly the same as the full version,
  >just a lower price on initial release. I have never seen an Academic
  >version listed anywhere over here.

gw>I don't count Warp Server 4 as a Warp 4 version, it's something else
  >entirely. It's a hybred version as it's really Warp 3 + server stuff
  >misnamed for marketing reasons as version 4.

GW>There _is_, however, another version of Warp 4 that has not been
  >mentioned at all in this thread. It was a Devcon special version
  >without WinOS2 built in and only supplied to registered OS/2
  >developers via a Devcon subscription immediately after Warp 4 GA
  >(Devcon 10 or 11?). I've got it here somewhere among the hundreds of
  >CDROMs stacked around the place...

    There were two versions of Warp 4 distributed with DevCon (both
licensed!).  The first one (distributed in 1996) did not include WinOS2,
but did include the Device Driver Pak.  The second one, distributed with
Release 2, volume 2, dated June 1998, was the full version including the
WinOS2 stuff, but no Device Driver Pak.  I have never been able to find
the BonusPak on either (although the 1996 version insisted on its label
that it did include the BonusPak).

    There is also Workspace On Demand (BlueBird).  I suppose this is a
version of Warp 4, because it accepts the Warp 4 FixPaks :-).  (See, for
example, the README.1ST for FixPak 10.)  However, I guess this isn't a
"retail version" because (according to the most recent IBM Software
catalog I have) the latest version of WSOD is available only through an
IBM Passport Advantage contract (a bulk purchasing agreement).

    Regards,

        --Murray

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