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From: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: Where's my SunSPARC?!
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In article <5fhgpi$j47$1@kayrad.ziplink.net>,
Kevin Lyda <kevin@faxint.com> wrote:
>adavie@varney.idbsu.edu wrote:
>:   On Jan 20, 1992, Andy Tannenbaum stated in comp.os.minix in an article
>: titled "Linux Obsolete" that in five years everyone would be running 200
>: MIPS 64M-SunSPARCs.
>
>well, i have a sun sparc at home, albeit an ipc.
>
>however it runs linux...

Well, as an earlier poster indicated, it does all boil down to the
definition of "everyone".  Given that some large percentage of the world's
(human) population has never even *seen* a computer, it hardly makes sense
to say that "everyone" runs any particular type of computer.

In fact, I think there's a lot of truth to the notion that what AT
originally had in mind for his definition of "everyone" was basically him and
his research cronies (and similar researchers around the world).  Even in
'91/'92, it must have been pretty clear that Wintel had a pretty secure
grasp on the lower end of (personal) computer users (ppl who, by the arg
above, are certainly in the very high percentages of knowledge/ability
compared to the general human population).

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