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Article #6574Re: New Modems, Telebit Fails under impairments in PC Magazine tests
From: Jim Becker
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 01:09
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 01:09
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ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten) writes:
kim@Software.Mitel.com (Kim Letkeman) writes:
>PCs have survived rather well along with the rest of the world. In
>fact, the latest stats and projections (Sept 24, 1990 issue of New
>York Times) show operating system market share as:
>Year DOS UNIX Windows OS/2
>1987 88.2 2.6 2.3 0.3
>1989 75.0 2.3 14.5 1.7
>1994 43.2 7.6 28.7 13.5
Is the New York Times trying to outdo PC Magazine in the propagation
of mis-information? Windows is not an operating system. It is a
proprietary windowing environment which runs *under* DOS.
I got no clue how this subject matter is under this heading... but the
same information, or mis-information if you chose to call it, is in
the current Unix-World. And it's in Pie chart format!
So like it or not Windows and DOS aren't being portrayed as overlapping...
-Jim Becker
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Jim Becker / jcb%frisbee@sun.com / Sun Microsystems
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