[Coco] CoCo Use Poll

Tim Fadden t.fadden at cox.net
Sun Feb 25 10:43:09 EST 2018


No surprise, aren't all poll rigged? :-)

P.S.  Never trust a poll.



On 2/25/2018 8:39 AM, Wayne Campbell wrote:
> I just voted. I looked at the results, and the totals are strange. The
> physical Hardware counts, CoCo3 + CoCo1/2 + Dragon, comes to 46%. All of
> the emulators comes to 45%. That's a total of 91%. Where's the other 9%? I
> think the algorithm is faulty.
>
> Wayne
>
>
> On Feb 25, 2018 7:28 AM, "Francis Swygert" <farna at att.net> wrote:
>
>> I just took a look at the results. Interestingly, if you add up all the
>> emulators, there is 32% using emulators, 34% using a real CoCo3. Take out
>> Xroar and JS Mocha since they are Dragon and CoCo2 based, and there is
>> still 30% using emulators. Of course MESS/MAME and Jeff Vavasour could be
>> either CoCo2 or 3, but I suspect most are using CoCo3 versions mainly with
>> maybe an occasional foray into CoCo2. I find it a bit surprising that 22%
>> are using Dragons or CoCo 1/2s, but then they are probably using CoCo3s or
>> emulators as well. That's the problem with multiple entries!  It's just a
>> simple polling system... once this has run for about 30 days I'll decipher
>> the info and put up a couple more polls to further disseminate the
>> collected info.  Frank Swygert
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>>
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