From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262051AbUEQWEZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 18:04:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262438AbUEQWEZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 18:04:25 -0400 Received: from smtp3.att.ne.jp ([165.76.15.139]:6128 "EHLO smtp3.att.ne.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262051AbUEQWEX (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 18:04:23 -0400 Message-ID: <05af01c43c5a$786e6340$b7ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> From: "Norman Diamond" To: "Roland Dreier" Cc: "Adrian Bunk" , References: <035e01c43b18$69ede9f0$b7ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60><20040516163644.GN22742@fs.tum.de><058301c43c57$6bcc9f10$b7ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <5265auu3i1.fsf@topspin.com> Subject: Re: [patch] kill off PC9800 Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 06:59:49 +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 Roland Dreier replied to me: > Norman> I'll bet that the number of PC9800 machines still in > Norman> existence is an order of magnitude larger than the number > Norman> of PowerPC machines still in existence (including current > Norman> ones). > > Do you realize that every Apple Macintosh sold for about the last 10 > years is PowerPC-based? Do you realize that Apple's market share is still less than NEC's? And if you want to go back 10 years, NEC had about 90% of the PC market and they were all 9800 series. > Not to mention all of IBM's midrange-servers > (p and i series). Plus a huge embedded presense. OK, NEC's servers are not PCs. (Or at least they didn't used to be.) But their numbers hardly affect PC statistics.