Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Joe Sloan
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 03:08

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In article <403nll$ijj@seminole.gate.net>,
Chad Irby <cirby@news.gate.net> wrote:
>Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
>: Who cares?  Today, there are orders of magnitude more typewriter users
>: than Mac users. 
>
>Well, no.  To have "orders of magnitude" more typewriter users than Mac 
>users, you'd have to have 100 times as many typewriter users than Mac 
>users.  There are about 20 million Mac users (at least- assuming *only* 
>one user per Mac).  That would mean 2 *billion* typewriter users.  Or one 
>out of three people in the world using typewriters.  Don't bet on it.

You have made the naive assumption that Dan meant "orders" in base 10.
Using base 2, a 4-fold advantage would qualify as "orders of magnitude"... 

Since Dan was discussing computers, you should have realized that base 2 
is assumed; The binary numbering system is used universally in computing...

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 Microsoft is not the answer - Microsoft is the question; the answer is NO!

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Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
Date: 7 Aug 1995 03:08:50 GMT
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