Re: [patch] kill off PC9800

[Norman Diamond]

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.

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