Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.modems:7742 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:4975 Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ogicse!intelhf!de.intel.com!dah.sub.org!ed From: ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: New Modems, Telebit Fails under impairments in PC Magazine tests Message-ID: <4033@dah.sub.org> Date: 21 Dec 90 18:16:56 GMT References: Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Organization: Public Access UNIX System for Landkreis/Stadt Dachau, Germany Lines: 24 kim@Software.Mitel.com (Kim Letkeman) writes: >PCs have survived rather well along with the rest of the world. In >fact, the latest stats and projections (Sept 24, 1990 issue of New >York Times) show operating system market share as: >Year DOS UNIX Windows OS/2 >1987 88.2 2.6 2.3 0.3 >1989 75.0 2.3 14.5 1.7 >1994 43.2 7.6 28.7 13.5 Is the New York Times trying to outdo PC Magazine in the propagation of mis-information? Windows is not an operating system. It is a proprietary windowing environment which runs *under* DOS. (Follow-ups directed to c.s.ibm.pc.misc...) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Braaten | "... Man looks at the outward appearance, Work: ed@de.intel.com | but the Lord looks at the heart." Home: ed@dah.sub.org | 1 Samuel 16:7b --------------------------------------------------------------------