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- From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.094002.6727@walter.cray.com>
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 09:40:01 CST
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- Craig Williams (craigw@fnal.fnal.gov) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec17.191137.423@walter.cray.com>, huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
- : wrote:
- : >
- : > From the 1990 Almanac (I wish I had a later one)
- : > Sales in Millions:
- : > IBM - 59,681
- : > Apple - 4,071
- : >
- :
- : Well Troy, this year Apple sold more machines than IBM. Now I dont have
- : exact numbers, and no that does not include all the clones either, but it
- : does illustrate a graph pointing in a direction that Mac users like to look
- : at.
-
- Maybe I should state the obvious, since you don't have the faintest
- notion of what I said up there. Those figures are SALES IN MILLIONS
- OF DOLLARS not PC's! That means almost 60 BILLION dollars vs. 4 BILLION
- dollars. What I said up there has nothing to do with PC's.
-
- By the way, if anyone has later sales figures, please post.
-
- Sorry, I promised not to post again on this subject.
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