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From: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore)
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Subject: Re: Hear no evil, See no evil, Do no evil
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Date: 1 Apr 88 17:19:42 GMT
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In article <1615@polyslo.UUCP# jbass@polyslo.UUCP (John L Bass) writes:
#There is no current product which will force early obsolence of the
#typical 640K 8088 PC running PFS Write or Word Perfect as a typewriter
#replacement/augmentor. This typewriter replacement market accounts for
#the vast majority of PC systems purchased in the last few years -- and is
#the market that has saturated.
I missed the early postings - we were disconnected from the net for a
bit. However, I do have one area I wonder if you researched: PC's as
mini's. My company, and many others, are using PC's where previously
mini's or custom controllers would be used. For example, in store 
Point of Sale systems, traditionally a dedicated controller is used
for each box. We are finding these being replaced by PC's. There seem
to be a lot of places where this sort of PC use is happening. Likewise,
we see PC's replacing minicomputers as servers and concentrators. Did
you include these numbers? I realize that they are likely much smaller
than the typewriter replacement number, and that this alone doesn't
come close to invalidating your thesis. I'm just curious about the numbers.
-- 
John Moore (NJ7E)   hao!noao!mcdsun!nud!anasaz!john
(602) 870-3330 (day or evening)
The opinions expressed here are obviously not mine, so they must be
someone else's.