Actually, DEC is trying to stay in business building expensive Windows boxes. The numbers I remember hearing are something like: 1,000,000 Unix machines 10,000,000 Macs 150,000,000 "PCs" (presumable not running *nix) Why should we care what platform people develop for? I use all of 'em. If a package supports more than one, all the better. As to why one should develop crypto stuff for unix, the demographics of this list are probably reason enough.. I use PCs as my main platform, but I get the distinct impression that most of the folks here use unix primarily. Maybe they're just the most vocal :) Ryan ---------- Previous Message ---------- To: jwz cc: cypherpunks From: deviant @ pooh-corner.com (The Deviant) @ smtp Date: 08/09/96 06:23:32 AM Subject: Re: e$: Watching the MacRubble Bounce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
If you accept that, then doesn't that make writing crypto software for any Unix platform *even more* of a waste of time? Because last time I checked, there were way more Macs on mom-and-pop's desks than Unix machines, counting *all* vendors.
Pardon my French, but you mus be fucking stupid or somehing. How many universities use UNIX platforms? How many companies use UNIX platforms? Sun, DEC, and SGI don't stay in buisiness by building cheap Windows boxes ya know. There are 13948 _registered_ LINUX machines, not to mention the unregistered ones. Don't tell me that Cray's were designed to run MacOS or Windows 95. UNIX isn' NEARLY as dead as Apple is. --Deviant Military secrets are the most fleeting of all. -- Spock, "The Enterprise Incident", stardate 5027.4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMgrZbTAJap8fyDMVAQFSagf8C3/HIX7XwtFYRAKxhs8AlDIsO1EXDgr9 jm9RzjGMXqHkgg0OC/0Bzp+OtcYYL5qg/JtaZo90LIdPbqEeOb7HkcYgXkPZ9SLd sQKIsZMr6IShG7ZIdPH9BRJWn131ExbUjCZ5IfMJVHsimTVbfLHHSppDylxtl2bG pI6d9FdCWj8puL3omB9PD9gpjoaF4p961+HBclH8W6PLzI+swc/6f49Uxv3LIF4w gm5IepZmoerW2iK2hwawngZPZJ4Sr4VqzyrAIvDl+rIFLFlN3ejNaGEjwHcNc43+ IBwoOS4kdv16faxT1jBskbKhcywmGqfIrap6Rdr0KkO5DyHHsSTz5g== =UBUr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----