Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Jason Garman
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 01:40

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In article <432e1d$j5b@meaddata.meaddata.com>,
Christopher C. Wood <christw@meaddata.com> wrote:
>In article <42qclc$3bu@sashimi.wwa.com>, blackbob@sashimi.wwa.com (G) writes:
>
>|> Preemptive multitasking is no more expensive to implement than
>|> cooperative.  
>
>If you don't care about existing applications.  And application base
>is what makes or breaks platforms.  
>
I've got apps for my PMT machines, lets see, Mathematica/Linux,
WordPerfect/SCO, FrameMaker for the Suns at work, etc etc etc...

>|> 92% of the industry has PMT, 
>
>Terry just made that up.  80 million PCs; 6 million running OS/2, a
>milion running Win95, 10,000 running Linux and other unix variants
>leave 73,990,000 running MS-DOS or Windows.  Add in 10 Million
>Macintoshes, and add 1.5 million unix workstations to the other side
>of the total.  These figures show 93% of the computers in the world
>running cooperative multitasking.  Do you have different figures?
>Let's see 'em.
>
You're wildly underestimating the Linux and possibly the unix workstation
totals... there are at least 20,000-30,000 Linux CDs alone pushed out
by vendors _each month_... I'm not sure about the Unix workstation
figures but they probably are higher than 1.5 million...

Jason Garman / garman@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov

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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
Date: 11 Sep 1995 21:40:21 -0400
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