Friends/Gurus,
Someone mentioned in our local Linux User Group that 99% of
the CPU told till date are are non i386 types.
I just wanted to know if it is true. Any pointers to online
stats?
thank a lot,
quasi
sorry as this is not lisp... but this is the only newsgroup I
subscirbe apart from comp.emacs
In article <···············@News.CIS.DFN.DE>,
quasi <·········@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Friends/Gurus,
> Someone mentioned in our local Linux User Group that 99% of
>the CPU told till date are are non i386 types.
> I just wanted to know if it is true. Any pointers to online
>stats?
This seems unlikely. I've heard it reported often that about 90% of
desktop systems run Windows, which only runs on x86, and this has been so
for at least a decade. And it seems pretty likely that desktop systems
outnumber servers by quite a bit.
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Barry Margolin <······@genuity.net> writes:
> In article <···············@News.CIS.DFN.DE>,
> quasi <·········@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Friends/Gurus,
> > Someone mentioned in our local Linux User Group that 99% of
> >the CPU told till date are are non i386 types.
> > I just wanted to know if it is true. Any pointers to online
> >stats?
>
> This seems unlikely. I've heard it reported often that about 90% of
> desktop systems run Windows, which only runs on x86, and this has been so
> for at least a decade. And it seems pretty likely that desktop systems
> outnumber servers by quite a bit.
Don't forget the vast amounts of 4-bit processors, PICs etc
used in washing-machines, door-bells and so on. Also, up until very
recently, the Z80 (or derivatives) was a popular choice for mobile
telephones.
99% sounds a bit high, though.
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"Barry Margolin" <······@genuity.net> wrote in message
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> In article <···············@News.CIS.DFN.DE>,
> quasi <·········@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Friends/Gurus,
> > Someone mentioned in our local Linux User Group that 99% of
> >the CPU told till date are are non i386 types.
> > I just wanted to know if it is true. Any pointers to online
> >stats?
>
> This seems unlikely. I've heard it reported often that about 90% of
> desktop systems run Windows, which only runs on x86, and this has been so
> for at least a decade. And it seems pretty likely that desktop systems
> outnumber servers by quite a bit.
You must also consider embedded systems and such. Most microwaves, car,
refridgerators, radios, tvs etc probably does not use pentiums. :)
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In article <···············@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net>,
Barry Margolin <······@genuity.net> writes:
> In article <···············@News.CIS.DFN.DE>,
> quasi <·········@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Friends/Gurus,
>> Someone mentioned in our local Linux User Group that 99% of
>>the CPU told till date are are non i386 types.
>> I just wanted to know if it is true. Any pointers to online
>>stats?
>
> This seems unlikely. I've heard it reported often that about 90% of
> desktop systems run Windows, which only runs on x86, and this has been so
> for at least a decade. And it seems pretty likely that desktop systems
> outnumber servers by quite a bit.
i suspect this number includes embedded systems (automotive, mobile
phones, etc). very few of tem use x86 type cpus. i read somewhere
that they outsell desktps and servers by far
hs
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Surely not (Did You really mean "99% are *non* i386 types"? ;-)
If You take into consideration that Apple Macs have a marketshare estimated
between 3% and 10% (depends on the sources), and they have PowerPC CPUs,
that would mean that i386 could at best reach 97%, not counted SPARCs,
Alphas, MIPS, etc....
quasi wrote:
> Friends/Gurus,
> Someone mentioned in our local Linux User Group that 99% of
> the CPU told till date are are non i386 types.
> I just wanted to know if it is true. Any pointers to online
> stats?