From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 10:25:35 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Windows roots and Unix influence (was Re: Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."