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- From: jjs@ubitrex.mb.ca (John Joseph Strybosch)
- Subject: Re: Incredible traffic in this group.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.173740.15704@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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- References: <1992Jul20.144947.597@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Jul21.042341.13912@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:37:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.042341.13912@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> g.sands@aukuni.ac.nz writes:
- >smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith) writes:
- >
- >>I estimate that this group has 5-10 times as much traffic as
- >>the Windows .misc group. Zowie. This morning there were about
- >>780 posts to be read here compared to about 50 in the Windows
- >>group. And I'm pretty sure I had both of them down to 0 late
- >>last week.
- >
- >Which means either that 5-10 times as many people are using OS/2
- >as opposed to Windows, or that those who are using OS/2 are having
- >5-10 times as much trouble with it. The problem is not in the
- >stats, just the interpretation. By the way, I notice that the
- >number of articles in the Windows programmer groups (totalled for
- >all of them) seems usually to be greater than in the OS/2 group.
-
- It might be more helpful to see what the windows groups looked
- like within the same time frame of the 3.0 release.
-
- I recall that most of the postings were about problems and
- incompatibilities, and few people were able to afford the
- SDK to do development. (Borland sure changed that with a
- little time).
-
- Once new software is released that is 'OS/2' aware (dos and
- windows programs) and there are more native OS/2 programs,
- I'd expect the same trends in these groups... However there
- will always be some chatter about how to get the latest
- CSD by ftp etc. that don't have any microsoft equivalent.
-
- JJ Strybosch
-