From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262418AbUEQVma (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 17:42:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262422AbUEQVma (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 17:42:30 -0400 Received: from smtp1.att.ne.jp ([165.76.15.137]:37594 "EHLO smtp1.att.ne.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262418AbUEQVm1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 17:42:27 -0400 Message-ID: <058301c43c57$6bcc9f10$b7ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> From: "Norman Diamond" To: "Adrian Bunk" Cc: References: <035e01c43b18$69ede9f0$b7ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20040516163644.GN22742@fs.tum.de> Subject: Re: [patch] kill off PC9800 Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 06:38:59 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.