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Nevin ":-]" Liber (nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU) wrote:
: In article <19950903.1175360.FCDB@olympus.net>, dons@olympus.net (Don
: Schmelling) wrote:

: > Nevin ":-]" Liber (nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU) wrote:
: >I do not think of all
: > end-users as dumb, just the ones that are.

: It sure as heck sounds like you consider someone dumb if they don't agree
: with your *opinion*.

: > So do you feel good about making up a number like 99%???
: > Maybee 99% in your shop, but not worldwide.

: Roughly speaking, 80-90% of the machines out there run DOS and Windows. 
: Another 8-15% of them are Macintoshes running System 6 or 7.  None of
: these have PMT yet (with the possible exception of Win95, depending on
: whether or not you believe the hype).  Everything else is in the noise. 
: What number do you come up with?  Maybe 5% of the machines out there have
: a PMT OS, and that is being very, very generous.

: > I do know what indispensable means,

: Just to make sure, it means, according to my Webster's Ninth New
: Collegiate Dictionary, not being set aside or neglected; absolutely
: necessary; essential.

: > and I did use it in the proper
: > context.

: Well, most of us do live without PMT.  If you have different numbers, post them.

: >I have yet to meet anyone at work who could not use
: > PMT, because people have more than one task to do at the same time.

: That means they need *multitasking*.  Other than your asserting it, you
: have not explained why people aboslutely cannot go on living without the
: scheduler being preemptive.
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What about OS/2. OS/2 runs much fatser than windows 95?
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