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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Let's pretend
Keywords: Intel, 586, windows
Message-ID: <18002@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 04:13:25 GMT
References: <3042@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1582@pai.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1582@pai.UUCP> erc@pai.UUCP (Eric F. Johnson) writes:
>    1) Macintosh--measure user base in millions
>    2,3) tie- Microsoft Windows, Amiga--around the 1 million mark for
>    MS Windows, more for the Amiga, but that will soon change (note that
>    I'm not saying whether this will be good or bad). If you read

	Over 2 million now for Amiga, going up fast.

>    Personal Workstation, please tell them that the Amiga sports a 
>    multi-tasking operating system with a graphical user interface
>    (for PW's strange application watch).

	But that would scale their existing entries to nil, unless they used
a log graph. ;-)  X is available on the Amiga also (3rd party).

>PS, I know there are a lot of Amiga evangelists out there. I'm not trying to 
>get your goat, just noting market reality. I am in no way trying to imply
>anything at all that could ever be considered bad about your wonderful
>machine.

	Noted.  MS windows 3.0 can try sell into a fairly large base of
existing machines.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Like a swift-flowing river
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