Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!rice!uw-beaver!milton!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!taco!hobbes!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga coverage in Byte Message-ID: <1991Mar2.000938.28734@ncsu.edu> Date: 2 Mar 91 00:09:38 GMT References: <91059.184958CXW148@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Mar1.024207.29305@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Mar1.112510.1947@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 21 peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >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. Actually, I think worldwide there are 6 million Macs. But whatever: I'm curious, what kind of numbers you're thinking of? I mean, it seems far more likely that we could figure say, 20 million serious clone owners vs 200,000 serious Amiga owners ("serious" meaning people who expand their machines and buy more software other than games)... that is, more of a 100:1 ratio at best. And how many A1000's are out there that won't be running 2.0? truly curious - kev