Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga coverage in Byte Message-ID: <1991Mar1.112510.1947@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 1 Mar 91 11:25:10 GMT References: <91059.184958CXW148@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Mar1.024207.29305@en.ecn.purdue.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 14 In article <1991Mar1.024207.29305@en.ecn.purdue.edu> stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) writes: > Let's take this from the top. There are some 75 million DOS boxes out > there. There are 4.5 million macintoshes. Lord knows how many unix > systems are currently running. How many Amigas have been sold? Over two million. About half as many as Macs... but many of those are now obsolete and incapable of running the latest software. Subtract out all the PCs in embedded applications, point of sale terminals, and so on. In terms of the number of smart-but-not-expert computer users BYTE claims to cater to it's probably only a 10:1 ratio in IBM's direction, with about equal numbers for the Mac and Amiga. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .