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- From: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (Tobin M. Creek)
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.163539.6347@ncsu.edu>
- Originator: tmcreek@c00100-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
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- Reply-To: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (Tobin M. Creek)
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
- References: <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec17.191137.423@walter.cray.com> <craigw-181292084150@fnpm06.fnal.gov>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:35:39 GMT
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- In article <craigw-181292084150@fnpm06.fnal.gov>, craigw@fnal.fnal.gov (Craig Williams) writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- Why don't we compare how many Apples and its clones sold vs. IBM and
- its clones sold? |-\ (For those who don't know, Apple has no clones.)
-
- IBM is no longer a market leader in the market it created. Therefore, the
- fact that Apple outsold IBM in microcomputers means little. The PC clone
- market shadows both IBM *AND* Apple in sales of micros.
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- IBM is an enormous company. PC's certainly are not their mainstay, and until
- recently, they largely ignored the PC realm. Mainframes are where they make
- (made) their money, and since computers are now smaller and faster, mainframes
- are becoming less and less useful in the big picture.
-
- Send replies to: | My opinions do not represent
- tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu | anyone who does not feel the
- creek-tm@aza.csc.ncsu.edu | same way as I do.
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