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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!uuhelio!jpf
- From: jpf@uuhelio.uucp (Jeff Francis)
- Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x)
- In-Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu's message of Fri, 18 Dec 92 18:24:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <JPF.92Dec18215804@uuhelio.uuhelio>
- Sender: jpf@uuhelio.uucp (Jeff Francis)
- Organization: HelioCentric Software
- References: <1992Dec10.213305.18495@news.dfrf.nasa.gov>
- <BEAULIEU.92Dec16084643@piranha.bose.com>
- <1992Dec16.185356.17158@midway.uchicago.edu>
- <1992Dec18.182401.7736@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:58:04 GMT
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- >The survey that was posted here recently indicated that 60+% of "seats" use
- >olwm, *and* 60+% of "seats" use Motif. I'd really love to know how that works.
- >Looks like more of the old "lies, damn lies, and statistics" stuff to me.
-
- More correctly, 60+% of the seats use OpenWindows 3 for their server and
- 60+% of the seats use mwm for their window manager. No magical 120% here
- because these two answers were in two disjoint questions. Here are some
- pieces from the original post:
-
- ------
- [...]
-
- NOTE: The first numeric column is the total number of responses that
- indicated this answer. The second numeric column is the percentage
- this total represents. The third numeric column is "scaled" by the
- value people indicated (if any) for their answer. The fourth column
- is the percentage this total represents. In short, the first group
- can be viewed as the number of "sites" and the second group can be
- viewed as the number of "seats".
-
- [...]
-
- 2. What window system software do you use?
- A. OpenWindows 2
- B. OpenWindows 3
- C. MIT X11R4
- D. MIT X11R5
- E. SunView
-
- A. 07 (08%) 022 (02%)
- B. 39 (44%) 669 (67%) <- 67% of 100% for Question 2
- C. 09 (10%) 084 (08%)
- D. 32 (36%) 200 (20%)
- E. 02 (02%) 025 (03%)
- -------- ---------
- TOTAL 89 1000
-
-
- 3. What window manager do you use?
- A. olwm (or derivative)
- B. mwm
- C. twm (or derivative)
- D. Other (Specify: _____________)
-
- A. 33 (42%) 144 (16%)
- B. 16 (20%) 567 (61%) <- 61% of 100 for Question 3
- C. 24 (30%) 187 (20%)
- D. 06 (08%) 025 (03%)
- -------- ---------
- TOTAL 79 923
-
-
- I apologize if this was confusing.
-
- --
- Jeff Francis, HelioCentric Software, uunet!uuhelio!jpf, (515) 232-1300
-