Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 00:59:17 +0900 From: KATO Takenori <kato@eclogite.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD@center.nitech.ac.jp, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: The Great PC98 Merge Message-ID: <199606151559.AAA00470@marble.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:11:33 -0700" References: <14960.834783093@time.cdrom.com>
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> 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?
I apologize for showing only speculation. I have not yet found how
many PC98 and IBM-PC clones were sold in Japan. I am looking for the
information now.
I speculate that:
1. Untile middle of 1994, much more than half of PC's were PC98 and
its compatible machines in Japan.
2. Since then, IBM-PC clones have rapidly extended their market
share.
3. 40 to 50% of the PC's sold in Japan were PC98 in 1995.
4. I still found many PC98 computers and many people bought them
in this year in Japan. (I also found many IBM-PC clones.)
> > for PC98', may become most common free UNIX-like OS _for PC98_ in
> > Japan. (Linux for PC98 has not been maintained for a few years, and
>
> I notice that you emphasised "for PC98" above - may I ask you just one
> or two more questions about this machine?
Why I emphasised PC98 in the above sentence is that almost all of PC98
users can choice only *BSD, but IBM-PC clone users can choice not only
*BSD but Linux. I think the number of Linux users is grater than that
of *BSD users.
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KATO Takenori <kato@eclogite.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Dept. Earth Planet. Sci., Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, 464-01, Japan
Voice: +81-52-789-2529 Fax: +81-52-789-3033
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