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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Progress on AdaOS
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In article <9maa90$aik2@news.cis.okstate.edu>, David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> writes:
> Can you please trim the message a little more?
> 
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:34:35 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:
>> MVS surely qualifies as surpassing VMS in total numbers of users, we
>> have several hundred thousands at my company alone (although some don't
>> realize that they're using it because it's hidden behind a nifty GUI). 
>> Last estimate that I saw for VM was that there were 8 to 10 million
>> users world wide (similar figures for OS/2).  I'm sure that's declined
>> (in both cases), but virtually every large company that has a mainframe
>> in their accounting department has a VM system in addition to MVS or
>> OS/390.  But then, every OS survey I've seen conveniently discounts
>> mainframe usage altogether.  
> 
> If it's hidden behind a nifty GUI, do they really count as users of
> the OS? I mean, I use all sorts of OS's everyday hidden behind a
> (not quite so nifty) GUI known as a web browser. But the OS on the
> other side of that link concerns me not. If that nifty GUI is done
> right, the OS behind it could change from MVS to Unix to NT to MacOS X
> and the end user would never know.

Under that rule, there are no Macintosh users.