Preliminary Survey Results
Andreas Raab
Andreas.Raab at gmx.de
Thu Nov 29 22:02:19 UTC 2001
John,
Thanks for the interesting information. The results do seem to reflect the
people actively posting on this list - a pretty even split between the major
OS' with a strong interest in handheld devices. Insofar it's no surprise to
me (but it's still not clear if the survey is representative for the
majority of people using Squeak).
Cheers,
- Andreas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of John
> Hinsley
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:18 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Preliminary Survey Results
>
>
> The survey generated about 100 mails (a few of which were off
> topic and
> a few
> of which were duplicates due to silly me making a pig's ear of the
> initial
> posting). 88 were non duplicated, on topic responses.
>
> Some people answered for others, some people answered with
> more than one
> OS and either gave no priority or were unable to.
>
> Ned Konz, who wins the award for Most Cautious Squeaker presented the
> most
> difficult response in that Ned runs Squeak in Linux and
> Windows, but the
> Windows version is run within VMware in Linux! In the end I
> thought I'd
> be
> kind to Redmond and count this as Linux and Windows.
>
> A preliminary result, by OS
>
> a. Mac ////////////////////////////// 30
> b. OSX //////////////// 16
> c. BSD /// 03
> d. Linux //////////////////////////////// 32
> e. Other *nix /////////// 11
> f. Acorn / 01
> g. Windows ///////////////////////////// 29
> h. OS2 /// 03
> i. PS2 00
>
> WinCE /// 03
> Zaurus /
> 01
> Squeak NOS / 01
>
> The Windows category includes 9* and NT Windows. The decision to put
> WinCE in
> a different category was pretty arbitary.
>
> There's the possibility of some "polution" between the "other
> *nix" and
> Windows columns. (Due to stupid error by me.)
>
> I'm shocked by the popularity of Mac OSs amoungst Squeakers
> (I mean, as
> a
> statistic, that's *really* contrary to popular wisdom).
>
> Otherwise, the "equality" of the main OSs is pretty striking.
>
> I'll try and do some other stuff with this, bit, in the
> meantime, thanks
> to
> everyone for their input.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
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