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From: tcamp@ecsvax.UUCP (Ted A. Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: CP/M Software Market--an interesting note from Micropro
Message-ID: <4393@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 03:16:59 GMT
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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I spoke to folks at Micropro just before Christmas and asked them
if they had any estimate of the size of the CP/M market.  They said
they didn't, but I received a letter this past week from a Marketing 
Communications Manager at Micropro, and she stated that between August and 
November 1986 Micropro sold 17,000 upgrades to CP/M Wordstar.

Estimates of the number of CP/M machines varies from one and a half to
two million.  Some of these are out of service, but others have been 
passed on.  Any one out there have a suggestion as to how we might 
characterize the size of the CP/M software market?

-- 
Ted A. Campbell       |
Duke Divinity School  |
Durham, NC  27706     |
email:  tcamp@ecsvax  |