[Ham-Mac] PERCENT MAC USERS AMONG HAMS

[James Johnson]

Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote:

>I am using Extreme Tracking to monitor the hits on my Website. Of 
>839 hits over the last three months, ET reports that 18.12% are Mac 
>OS, 78.02% are Windows, 1.58% are Linux, and 2.22% are "other" 
>operating systems (Unix, Solaris, etc.). This is measured against 
>the general statement that only 4% to 5% of people use Macs.

	Too bad the variety of "Windows" operating systems are not 
listed.  Some people think that Windows 3.1 is an operating 
system...It is not, it is just an extension that runs with the DOS 
x.x operating system.  Would DOS with the Windows 3.1 extension be 
one of the "other" operating systems?  Of the 1.58 who are running 
Linux, I wonder how many are on Apple 680x0 or PowerPC xxx machines.
	Other operating systems?  Would that include an Apple running 
the Be operating system?
	Where would AU/X be?  AU/X is an Apple version of IBM's AIX 
(Unix variation) operating system.
	I am now using Macintosh 8.6 but I wish I could go back to 
Macintosh 7.5.5.  Apple is not nice to those who want to customize 
the look of the interface.  With Mac 7.5 I could use Aurora to make 
the menu bar black with grey lettering and the menus could be 
customized the same way.  With Mac 8.x the menu bar has little white 
diagonal lines in the upper right and upper left and the menu bar 
becomes more than twice as tall at times, and the folders do not have 
the nice neat icons that they had in Mac 7.x and before.  I hope that 
software writers will not abandon Macintosh 7.x too soon because I 
intend to use it when I can on a partition on my second internal hard 
drive or on one of my external hard drives.  Could Linux gain market 
share (installed users not new sales) because of Apple's pig headed 
ways?
James
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