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Name: doghead
Date: December 28, 2004 at 16:22:36 Pacific
OS: W98SE
CPU/Ram: P3/1000/20/128
Comment:

I know a dealer who has some W98SE OS software for sale.

In that context,

*what does OEM "mean"? (I know what it abbreviates, but what does it mean, exactly?)

*What does COA stand for, and mean?

Thanks very much.



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Name: jboy
Date: December 28, 2004 at 16:28:02 Pacific
Reply:

Certificate of Authenticity

*Google is another term you may want to familiarize yourself with

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing..if you can fake that, you've got it made.


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Response Number 2
Name: jboy
Date: December 28, 2004 at 16:32:30 Pacific
Reply:

.. sounded like a familiar question


The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing..if you can fake that, you've got it made.


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Response Number 3
Name: grasshopper
Date: December 28, 2004 at 17:02:08 Pacific
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An OEM disk is usually sold with a computer, but you can buy them on Ebay and such. Certificate of Authenticity simply means it's genuine.

When all is said and done
More is said than done..


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Response Number 4
Name: doghead
Date: December 28, 2004 at 22:39:20 Pacific
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Thanks, grasshopper.


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Response Number 5
Name: JimmieC
Date: December 29, 2004 at 06:17:35 Pacific
Reply:

doghead;

Have you seen this site?

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definitionsCategory/0,289915,sid9_tax1664,00.html


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Response Number 6
Name: jboy
Date: December 29, 2004 at 07:48:48 Pacific
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Possibly if you researched these random questions yourself you wouldn't need to repeat them. Computing.Net's a great resource, but peppering the board with trivialities seems to be a poor use of it (to me anyways - ymmv)

Maybe start here


Why don't they make computers that will do what we think we want them to do?


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