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From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How many PCs and Macs
Keywords: PC, Macs installed
Message-ID: <54431@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 90 23:42:00 GMT
References: <28343@ut-emx.UUCP> <361@newave.UUCP>
Reply-To: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <361@newave.UUCP> john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
>In article <28343@ut-emx.UUCP> mike@ut-emx.UUCP (Mike O'Donnell) writes:
>> Has anyone seen published numbers of PCs, clones and Macintoshes
>> installed worldwide?
>
>Off the top of my head, there are about 15-Million MS/PC-DOS machines
>in the US.  Since this number is at least 2 years old, I would suspect
>that it is approaching 20-million.

Currently about 30 million Messy DOS compat. machines world-wide.