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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
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- Date: 15 Jan 1996 17:10:25 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
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- bayleyp (bayleyp@slip.net) wrote:
- : Actually what sells microsoft is 86code, DOS and Win3.x compatability. The
- : ads didn't sell as much as they thought they would (9mil instead of
- : 32mil).
-
- Quite a few Win95 sales at this point are preloads, and 'DOS' machines
- are purchased and used with OS/2 and various Unix operating systems
- (among others). *Almost* all the OS/2 users I know bought systems with
- DOS/Win simply because it was hard to find vendors who DIDN'T preload, so
- they just deleted DOS/Win and got on with life.
-
- Of course, they are ALL counted among the official "Windows" users.
-