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To: Brian Hutcheson who wrote (27064)	12/22/1997 7:20:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (3) of 1572978

I suspect those numbers are way off. They seem to ignore the screwdriver shop clones, which are very highly Intel based. In Canada about 50-60% of sales are no name boxes, made with standard cases, power supplies etc. The Canadian sales measuring companies make the same errors. I remember one year they had total Canadian sales at some figure and released it as a bona fide sales value. A friend of mine who sells Panasnic floppies(wholeasler in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver) sold more 1.44 disc drives than that Canadian total. We had a laugh at that survey,as we suspect there is a close 1:1 ratio between floppy drive and system sales, and we realised that the distributed screwdriver matket is far larger than anyone suspects. I suspect that the K6 is about 5-6% of total sales, and the 16% for K6 and the 17.4% for P II are also in error. Does Intel and AMD publish figures to verify/deny that survey?? Bill

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