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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead?
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.081457.427@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 15 Jan 91 08:14:57 GMT
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dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:

>In <3859@bnr-rsc.UUCP> schow@bcarh185.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes:

>>>operating system market share...

>"Market share" is a dangerous term.  [..]
>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?

Messy-dos proponents count you as four users; Unix proponents count you as
four users.

>Those statistics can prove anything.  Don't forget:  80% of people
>surveyed believe that they are above average in intelligence.
				      ^^^^^^^
mean, mode, or median ???

(sorry, couldn't resist that -- just shows another way of lying with stats)

Ps.  I'm one of the 80%, but i won't tell you what kind of average (:-)
-- 
Derek "Tigger" Terveer	det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG - MNFHA, NCS - UMN Women's Lax, MWD
I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need
your advice.  -- "I am the way and the truth and the light" -- The Legendary Pink Dots