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From: jcb@frisbee.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: New Modems, Telebit Fails under impairments in PC Magazine tests
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Date: 3 Jan 91 01:09:18 GMT
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ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten) writes:

    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.  


I got no clue how this subject matter is under this heading... but the
same information, or mis-information if you chose to call  it,  is  in
the current Unix-World. And it's in Pie chart format!

So like it or not Windows and DOS aren't being portrayed as overlapping...


-Jim Becker
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