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Average child uses linux factoid acutally just statistical error, @inkballpro, who lived in a cave and installed 10,000 virtual machines a day was an outlier and shouldn't have been counted. (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think there were enough C64's produced for it to be "normal".

I was coding Fortran on punched cards then, I didn't know anyone with a computer at home then - they were still expensive hobbies. The Commodore was certainly part of opening it up, but damn few people had them.

I was definitely looked at as unusual at the time for doing any kind of "computer stuff".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

in the mid 80s, the c64 was the best selling computer (afaik, still is to this day, the single best-selling model ever), sold like 2m+ units a year, outsold even PCs and apple, and had ~ 40% market share.

it was cheap, it had lots of software, and was accessible--selling at discount retailers instead of just computer stores and shops.

yea. it was 'normal'.

abnormal would have been an outlier like a trs80 or ti99/4a instead of one of the 'big three' of the day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Normal for personal computers... which were abnormal at the time.