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   In article <TIM.91Feb28152445@kahlo.cstr.ed.ac.uk>, tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) writes:
   >>>>>> On 26 Feb 91 01:18:33 GMT, Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM said:
   > 
   > That's a lot!  I reckon that must mean something like 100,000 serious
   > users of Emacs, possibly rather more, but less than a million.  Does
   > anyone know how many copies <some random word-processor> ships over
   > its life?  how about <random commercial Unix editor/word-processor
   > excluding stuff shipped with Unix (vi, ed &c)>?
   > 

   Date: 3 Mar 91 20:39:43 GMT
   From: mhoffos@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca
   Organization: Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta

   According to the latest WordPerfect Report, they (WordPerfect) are
   shipping 200 000 copies a month world-wide, which represents
   (according to the figures I have seen) about 66% of the DOS
   word-processer market.  Last year, they had $459 Million in sales.
   Last year, they also reached a huge milestone: cumulative sales of
   $1 billion.

   ...

   These are in my opinion staggering numbers. I guess it is not that
   surprising why WordPerfect is sysonymous with word processing!

Just want to point that GNU Emacs and the other full power Emacs are
much more then word processers.  Emacs is many other things including:
	- a user interface to a computer, comparable to the Unix shell
	  or DOS command processor.
	- a software development environment.
	- a window system for character based displays.

thanx -len