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From: schow@bcarh185.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead?
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Date: 3 Jan 91 19:01:13 GMT
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In some article, someone quoted from the NY Times:
>      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

Interesting projections. Windows sales went up by over a factor of 6 in 2 years,
but is project only to grow a factor of 2 in the next 5 years. On the other hand,
Unix *drops* 10% in 2 years, but is projected to grow a factor of almost 3 in
the next 5 years.

Does this mean they expect spectacular Unix sales in 1994 - the tenth running year
of "this is the year when Unix takes off?"

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