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In 1993, twelve years after the introduction of the IBM PC, there were 152 million personal computers [1]. That figure includes Macs, and many of the IBM PC compatibles were probably running only DOS or OS/2, not Windows.

I'm guesstimating that the Windows platform reached an installed base of 160m around 1996. That means it took iOS 1/5 of the time to get to 160m.

[1] http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/newsroom/background/missinglin...



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