Re: DOS is dead.

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From: Ajay Shah
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 07:29

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>In article <703214134snx@crynwr.com>, nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) says:
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>>DOS is dead.  (At most) A year from now no one will be programming for MS-DOS.

FYI -- the last time I looked there were ~ 60 million PCs
in the world.  Mediocresoft had sold 9 million copies of Windows.
Surveys show 25% of all Windows-buyers boot windows.

So of 60 million PCs you have 2.5 million booting Windows.
Roughly 1 million are booting Unix.

What are the rest doing?  QDOS.

        -ans.

-- 

Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu

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