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Subject: Re: (FreeBSD 4409) Re: The Great PC98 Merge
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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(I'm just paraphrasing from the replies to the Japanese mailing list.)

 * 1. How many PC98 machines would you say are being actively used in
 *    Japan today?
 * 
 * 2. Balanced against the sales of "standard PCs" in Japan, how well
 *    has the PC98 marketplace done from 1993 through 1996?  What state
 *    of affairs would you project for 1997?

They're still looking for "hard" numbers, but their (consensus) guess
seems to be something like half the PC's sold in Japan in 1995 were
PC98's.

Most of the rest are AT clones, and some Mac's etc.

Satoshi