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From: jsloan@wright.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Percentage of VAXs running some form of UNIX compared to VMS?
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Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 19:19:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  4 19:19:39 1987
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in article <4795@shemp.ucla-cs.UCLA.EDU>, cracraft@sonia.cs.ucla.edu (Stuart M. Cracraft) says:
> In article <473@bcsaic.UUCP> djd@bcsaic.UUCP (Dennis J. Doherty) writes:
>>I was wondering if any person out there has a guess (or real data) on
>>the percent of VAXs that are running UNIX (Ultrix, 4.x, System V, ?)
>>as compared to VMS??  
> I believe the figures I heard were 10% Unix, 90% VMS. 

I heard DEC quote the 10/90 ratio at the new product announcement in
February. I have also read in one of the DEC-oriented trade magazines
that if you take PDP-11s into account (PDP-11+VAX) the percentage is
more like 45% UNIX, 55% DEC operating system (RSX, RT, VMS, etc.) Don't
know how reliable these numbers are, but the trade magazines require
this type of information to be supplied for a free subscription, so it
may at least reflect the tastes of the readership of such magazines
(which is kind of suprising, to me anyway).
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