ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten) (01/04/91)
kim@Software.Mitel.com (Kim Letkeman) writes: >In article <4033@dah.sub.org> ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten) writes: >| kim@Software.Mitel.com (Kim Letkeman) writes: >| >| >fact, the latest stats and projections (Sept 24, 1990 issue of New >| >York Times) show operating system market share as: >| >| >Year DOS UNIX Windows OS/2 >| >1987 88.2 2.6 2.3 0.3 >| >1989 75.0 2.3 14.5 1.7 >| >1994 43.2 7.6 28.7 13.5 >| >| Is the New York Times trying to outdo PC Magazine in the propagation >| of mis-information? Windows is not an operating system. It is a >| proprietary windowing environment which runs *under* DOS. >Well Ed, I beg to differ. You are correct in that Windows is a >proprietary windowing system, but I don't agree with the statement >that Windows runs under DOS. Windows actually extends DOS. That was my point: the column heading should be "DOS+Windows". >I will agree, of course, that it is pretty kludgy and that OS/2 and >UNIX are examples of real OS's as compared to Windows, but I don't >think its fair to crap all over Windows just because it happens to >have DOS as its heritage. With any luck, it may become DOS 5.0... ;-) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Braaten | "... Man looks at the outward appearance, Work: ed@de.intel.com | but the Lord looks at the heart." Home: ed@dah.sub.org | 1 Samuel 16:7b --------------------------------------------------------------------