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Gareth Knight
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What niche markets do other systems fill?
For people who do not know a niche market is a certain area that
a particular system is dominant in. This is advantageous to the
particular platform as it means even if there are more powerful
computers available, the people in that niche will upgrade to the
system they are used too. The niche list below is based upon a
Usenet discussion at the beginning of 1998.
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Task/Area
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Acorn
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Schools
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Amiga
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Graphics design/television work
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Apple Mac
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Desk Top Publishing (most magazines/newspapers use Macs)
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Atari ST
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Music
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Unix variations, particularly Linux
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Net server, used by the majority of universities
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Psion
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Handheld
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Silicon Graphics
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3D/graphics, high-end VR
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Sun
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File server
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Windows 3.x/95/98
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General office work, such as Word Processing, spreadsheets,
etc.
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Windows NT
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3D/server
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