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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Sales Increase according to SPA
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Date: 1 Nov 90 22:29:01 GMT
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In article <1990Nov1.074322.24051@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>
>	For the past quarter sales of Amiga software increased by
>34%, as compared to 27% in the MS-DOS and the Macintosh markets.
>Sales of Unix software increased 400% and OS/2 software by 850%.
>	Sales of Amiga WordProcessors increased by 80%.

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Increased 34% as compared to what?  The previous quarter?  The same
quarter last year?

What do you mean by "sales"?  Cash (dollar) amounts?  Unit numbers?

             Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.