> These were the difficulties that limited sale of > computers to less than a hundred thousand units when > the world's population was 4 billion. What is the > statistics today ? GUI made it possible to get the > computer across to a quarter of the population of the > world. Improve the GUI, my maid servant will buy > one.
Actually, the Commodore 64 sold 15 million units, Amiga sold at least another 8. and Atari 800, the XL and Atari ST must've sold another 15-20 million units combined. There there was Apple, also having sold several million units, and the fledgling IBM PC XT and AT models. This was still at the end of '89 - '90 of the past century, so your point about "less than a hundred thousand units" does not stand. This was in times when almost nobody knew what a computer is when compared to today's state of affairs, yet units sold in tens of millons and people were proficient in using them. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
