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On 2015-05-11, Caver1 <caver1@inthemud.org> wrote:
> On 05/11/2015 01:39 PM, nospam wrote:

>> macs run all operating systems. windows systems do not.

"All"?? How many Macs are running Z/OS? Tandem Non-Stop?  VMS?

Jeez, but you're dumb
> What does that have to do with the price of jelly beans?
> The platforms above have nothing to do with Macs or Windows running all OSs.
>
>
>>> Things such as, say airport flight boards, traffic lights, cars, are all
>>> systems that run some brand of OS. Windows, Linux, whatever.
>>
>> they run windows in nearly all cases.

Utter cock.  Windows is nowhere in the server space.

The company I work for (one of the 15 largest in the world) has 10's of thousands of servers.

Less than 10% of them are Windows.

None of them are Macs.

(OTOH, the 300,000 desktops we run are all Windows.)

>> if you eliminate flight boards, traffic lights etc., you get a much
>> different picture, with macs having a substantial share. not that it
>> matters much.

It doesn't matter because it's nonsense.