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From: Dean Kukral <[log in to unmask]>
>You can buy windows with a motherboard.  I bought
>98 with a mb a while back for $109 for the oem version.

I only just noticed this statement. Aha! Now we're talking. This sounds like
exactly the deal I want. How do you go about this, please?

Incidentally, I have now found an Irish supplier for Asus motherboards (and
have discovered that they're pronounced Azoose), but the supplier doesn't
have the P3B-F in its 5PCI/2ISA/1AGP version. Both they and I have emailed
Asus in Germany, but neither of us has got an answer so far. So I may have
to back off the idea of going for an Asus board; two of my most important
considerations are international availability and excellent tech support,
and a company that doesn't answer its emails doesn't fulfil either of those
too well.

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