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Subject: Re: The Great PC98 Merge 
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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 00:59:17 +0900
From: KATO Takenori <kato@eclogite.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
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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