From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 7 14:49:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA25686 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:49:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [208.220.66.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA25681 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:48:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dufault@hda.hda.com) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15962 for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 17:00:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199710072100.RAA15962@hda.hda.com> Subject: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 17:00:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ----- Forwarded message from John C Green Jr ----- Can anyone comment on this that was sent to the private alliant-alumni list in the wake of the SGI loss and Dec's apparent readiness to dump Alpha: > Unix has stalled with an install rate of under 1 Million > boxes per year; it was as many as 720K boxes in 1993. Wintel > will ship about 83 Million this year up substantially from > last year. Windows/NT overtook all Unixes combined several > quarters ago in boxes shipped. I'll grant the boxes shipped part, since the Internet OS's don't ship in boxes. Are there any remotely hard numbers about FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux? The observation is from: > -- > John C Green Jr > Internet Marketing and Business Development > Website Development and Project Management > 21483 Old Mine Rd (408)353-1870 > Los Gatos CA 95030 JCGreen@ix.netcom.com I'll summarize to him later. -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Safety critical systems, Agency approval