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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead?
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Date: 11 Jan 91 21:23:04 GMT
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In <3859@bnr-rsc.UUCP> schow@bcarh185.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes:

>>operating system market share...

"Market share" is a dangerous term.  If you compare n systems running a
multiuser OS, each supporting 50 users, and m systems running a
single-user OS, each supporting 1 user, how do you define market
share?

I have 4 different machines at home, running various combinations of
MS-DOS and UNIX.  How do you calculate my contribution to "market
share"?  Do you count me as four systems, or as one?  One user, or
four?

Those statistics can prove anything.  Don't forget:  80% of people
surveyed believe that they are above average in intelligence.
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