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In article <432oe5$hbf@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>, garman@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jason Garman) writes:


Terry:
|> >|> 92% of the industry has PMT, 

Chris Wood:
|> >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.

Jason Garman:
|> 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...

OK, I'll up the total for Linux by an order of magnitude, to 100,000.
I also forgot Windows NT, at 500,000.  Since you don't like the
workstation number, I'll double it, to 3 Million.  But, I've received
a correction; the number of Macintoshes out there is 21 Million, not
the 10 Million I had before.  Sales for Windows 95 have continued
apace; let's say 5 Million have already upgraded.  Guess how much the
percentage has changed?

86 percent of the computers out there use cooperative multitasking.

8 percent of the computers out there use preemptive multitasking, not
the 92 % that Terry made up.

Chris
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