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		rplnt on Nov 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Open Letter to Intel > I guess that makes MINIX the most widely used computer operating system in the world, even more than Windows, Linux, or MacOS. I very much doubt that there's more (modern) Intel CPUs in the wild than there's say android devices (not containing Intel CPUs).

hawski on Nov 7, 2017 [–]

> (...) computer operating system (...)

I guess that by "computer" he means "desktop".

fnord123 on Nov 7, 2017 | [–]

He doesn't know what he means. Linux is deployed on more than 1/cpu through VMs.

charonn0 on Nov 7, 2017 | | [–]

> He doesn't know what he means.

I'm pretty sure he does.

fnord123 on Nov 8, 2017 | | [–]

I'm pretty sure if you pressed him on it, he would change goalposts to suit his fantasy.

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