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

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From: Mike Dickson
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 13:01
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In article <432e1d$j5b@meaddata.meaddata.com>
           christw@meaddata.com "Christopher C. Wood" writes:

> |> 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.

For someone accusing someone else of 'making up figures', I think you're
fairly free in the imagination game yourself. Where did you get these
figures from?

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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 95 13:01:38 GMT
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