Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:03:29 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: My thoughts on the "new development model" |
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 at 00:13:44 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I'd expect vastly less than 1%, starting from the arch count, and then >> making some conservative guesses about drivers. Drivers probably >> actually take it down to far, far less than 1%.
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Sure, but pretty much each installation uses a different 1%. > If there's a bug in there it's bound to hit someone; that's > what makes OS writing so difficult. (And that's why "It works > for me" is not really a useful statement about the overall quality > of an operating system.)
99.99% of users use one arch, i386. 99.99% of users use one disk driver, IDE. The intersection of these users is probably well over 99.999% of all users.
Then probably a small list of secondary drivers varies. Statistically, users with anything but the crappiest x86 s**tboxen and a tiny subset of all drivers (arjan's 20) are hopelessly outnumbered.
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