From: "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@despammed.com>
To: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] kill off PC9800
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 06:38:59 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <058301c43c57$6bcc9f10$b7ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040516163644.GN22742@fs.tum.de>
Adrian Bunk replied to me:
> > When were PowerPC, MIPS (other than embedded), and Alpha chips last
> > manufactured, and how popular are they?
>
> All of them are still manufactored.
Oh, then there is no comparison. I had not seen any in the marketplace in
recent years and just assumed they were no longer being made.
> With at about 3 million computers and notebooks sold with a preinstalled
> Unix in 2003, PowerPC is definitely one of the most popular Unix
> platforms today.
OK, but I'll bet the preinstalled Unix isn't Linux. You don't say how many
owners switched to Linux, so as a WAG let's say 10%. Let's also WAG that
10% of PC9800 owners switched from preinstalled Monopoly Windows to X11
Windows plus Linux. I'll bet that the number of PC9800 machines still in
existence is an order of magnitude larger than the number of PowerPC
machines still in existence (including current ones).
This still doesn't mean that I like the PC9800 by the way. For comparison,
Monopolysoft taught me to hate Monopolysoft, but for some reason I think it
would not be wise to delete FAT and NTFS filesystem handlers from Linux.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-17 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-16 7:35 Norman Diamond
2004-05-16 16:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-05-17 21:38 ` Norman Diamond [this message]
2004-05-17 21:51 ` Roland Dreier
2004-05-17 21:59 ` Norman Diamond
2004-05-17 22:33 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-18 1:04 ` viro
2004-05-17 22:17 ` Joel Jaeggli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-16 17:50 James Bottomley
2004-05-16 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-16 21:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-16 21:38 ` James Bottomley
2004-05-17 17:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-18 20:14 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-18 20:23 ` Brian Gerst
2004-05-18 20:53 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-18 21:14 ` James Bottomley
2004-05-16 6:21 Randy.Dunlap
2004-05-16 6:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-16 16:16 ` GOTO Masanori
2004-05-16 17:25 ` Randy.Dunlap
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