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From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Report
Date: 25 May 1994 17:46:29 -0400
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In article <769894359.64snx@config.com>,
config.sys, Inc. Information Account <info@config.com> wrote:
>
>By now, most of you know I'm a big fan of Walnut Creek's products.  I
>feel they offer tremendous value for the dollars spent and are among the
>finest currently available.  Their CICA Windows and SIMTEL discs are
>ones that spend a great deal of time in my drive.  They are updated
>quarterly and are the most up-to-date shareware discs I know of since
>they are images of Internet archives.  I like their new search engines a
>lot, although I think that their Windows engine needs improvement.
>Although the SIMTEL-20 site has disappeared, I believe that it's being
>maintained by its mirror sites.  Anyway, I think that the SIMTEL and
>CICA discs are "must haves" if you are DOS/Windows user.

Why, then, hasn't the SIMTEL disc been updated "quarterly" since October
1993?


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