From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah) Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 15:46:02 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Windows roots and Unix influence (was Re: Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:25:35 +1100." References: Message-ID: <20180204234617.AA1BC156E80B@mail.bitblocks.com> On Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:25:35 +1100 Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Dan Cross wrote: > > > The colonel kept asking me why I didn't run Windows: "but it's the most > > popular operating system in the world!" Actually, I suspect Linux and > > BSD in the guise of iOS/macOS is running on a lot more devices than > > Windows at this point. I didn't bother pointing that out to him. > > I'm told that Android (Linux?) outnumbers iOS (BSD?) quite heavily in the > mobile market; Win/CE (pronounced "wince") never really took off. Depends on which market you look at. In the desktop/laptop world Windows is still the king. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Market_share_by_category