Noise Over Mac OS Market Share "Slip"

OakDragon writes, "Mac OS market share actually slipped since last September. This reverses a trend in the winter and spring months that showed some slight growth. The actual percentage loss is small: 0.02%. But it may be significant since it follows a solid growth trend. It must be disappointing to Apple and Mac fans to see what is basically a flat line in desktop market share." Mac-oriented sites are pointing out the unreliability of the metrics from Net Applications, which are based on users of the HitsLink service.

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Re:Talking about using CP/M is funny, but...

[drinkypoo]

Please don't explain jokes. It doesn't make them funny for the people who only understand them after you explain them, and it makes them a lot less funny to those of us who DO understand them. I've owned two different CP/M machines (A Kaypro 4 and then later an Altos with 8" floppies, two of 'em) and your explanation makes me sad. Also, the majority of CP/M machines used the Z80, not the 8088. This is especially significant because the Z80's instruction set is a superset of that of the 8088 and your 8088 programs might run on Z80 systems, but Z80 programs probably won't run on 8088-based CP/M systems.