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From: eric@hippo.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Steve Jobs at USENIX
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 01:19:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 01:19:39 1987
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In article <5977@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> Another point to note re. some of Steve Jobs's remarks:
> If the 250,000 UNIX systems vs. couple of million MS-DOS or Apple
> systems is to be believed, then there may well be more UNIX users
> than users of any of the other systems, since UNIX is normally set
> up as a multi-user system (with from 4 to 128 users each) whereas
> the other systems are normally set up for a single user.

	Last I knew, the largest group of UNIX licenses were for
the Tandy's, running Xenix. Most of those are (hopefully) single user
machines. Likewise most of the Suns, etc. Probably a fair number of
the MicroVaxen. Does anyone have any real guess how many UNIX users
there are (that has numbers to back it up)?

	While I'm not sure Jobs was thinking about the multiuser
systems, I'm not sure that his comments are still applicable. Even on
multiuser machines, the days of non-bitmapped terminals are probably
numbered, and that puts even the Crays, Convexes, Alliants, etc into
having to deal with bit-mapped devices. But this probably isn't
the proper group to continue this discussion in.

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					eric
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