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Philip Machanick wrote:
> 
> In article <4f3sg2$eug@hermes.acs.unt.edu>, harperc@jove.acs.unt.edu
> (Harper Raymond Carr) wrote:
> 
> >Don Andrachuk (dea@astral.magic.ca) wrote:
> >> In article <4drq9g$4l7@s-cwis.unomaha.edu>, issa@cwis.unomaha.edu (Issa
> >> El-Hazin) wrote:
> >
> >> >According to the exprts, Apple rankes 4th - behind Unix, NT, and
> >> >Windows 3.x/95.                       ^^^
> >
> >Isn't this last place??
> 
> 4th in what ranking? Not installed base or sales.
> --
> Philip Machanick
> Computer Science Department, University of the Witwatersrand
> 2050 Wits, South Africa
> philip@cs.wits.ac.za  27(11)716-3309 fax 339-7965

I'd be curious about what "Experts" we're referring to here.  Recent
user-based tests by PC World came up with a very different ordering:

1)  Mac 7.5
2)  Windows 95
3)  OS/2 Warp
4)  Windows NT

Basis of test was a group of experienced small computer users with a
background on one particular machine.  The users were then required
to setup and install a machine using each OS, with the exception of
whichever they regularly used.  After machine was up, they had s/w
to install, and a set of tasks to complete.  Wanted to avoid the 
"This is great and easy because I use it all the time." phenomenon.
The gap between the Mac & Windows 95 wasn't great, but was there.
The only reason NT came in last was the clunky 3.1 type interface;
no one seems to have liked it.  Of the tested OS's, the _ONLY_ one
that none of the users managed to crash running mainline applications
was NT.

Good thing they didn't give them Linux, too.  Installation might 
have been ok on the PC's, not yet quite here on the Mac.  Setting up
& getting tasks completed for non-unix types would have probably been
humorous. 8^)



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