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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