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From: jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun's Competitive Strategy (Was: Re: P1754
Message-ID: <677@TALOS.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 90 20:56:13 GMT
References: <1990Nov25.194404.3376@dircon.uucp> <741@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA
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csd29@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A. Herath) writes:

>From article <1990Nov25.194404.3376@dircon.uucp>, by uad1077@dircon.uucp:
>>
>>
>> Dan Mocsny writes:
>>
>> While I largely agree with your analysis of Sun's move, Apple are
>> perhaps the crwoning example that shows there is another way.  Apple
>> often seem to be downplayed by netters, perhaps because they sell
>> so many machines to non-computer users...  It's hard to imagine
>                      ^
>		      You mean as show pieces rather than the machines
>		      that can be used (for the intended purpose) ? :-?

	From what I understand the percentage of unused Macs is
	no higher than the percentage of unused PCs and clones.
	In both cases it is reported that about 1/3 of the units
	shipped are _not_ used.
	
	Managers in academia, business, and government like to
	have a computer sitting on the credenza -- and more
	often than we like never even turn it on! 

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