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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: WILL ???BSD DIE?
Message-ID: <hastyCFwDpy.FA5@netcom.com>
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References: <2b64ce$l4o@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <hastyCFvpE8.F6@netcom.com> <kaleb.752284172@kanga.x.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 03:58:45 GMT
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In article <kaleb.752284172@kanga.x.org> kaleb@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
>hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>
>>Hi,
>> 
>>I am just curious as to how large is the installed based of 386bsd  or linux
>>users.
>> 
>>I have a strong suspicion that we are bigger than the OS/2 installed base :-)
>
>Do you think you have more that 2,250,000? How do you count people like
>me who have both installed on one system? 

For starters you don't count :-)

As for those who have multiple OS, it is not relevant. What is relevant
is if they have 386bsd and use it.

>
>Everyone who's running Linux and *BSD send Amancio email, Amancio, you
>let us know when you start counting. Post a notice every 100,000 or so.
>No fair using a computer to count. :-)
>
>Methinks you've been hanging around Jesus too much. :-) Happy counting.

God I hate to enlighten your mosquito size brain, I kind like it 
the way it is :-)

If there was sufficient interest, one could set-up a polling server
very similar to the way that it was done when we voted for this 
newsgroup.

And, no I am not volunteering to offer the computing resources.


	Amancio
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