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@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ __ disks/grundpaket/03_eumel0.img .. _install instructions: 01_readme_INSTALL.txt .. _qemu: http://www.qemu.org/ +.. include:: popularity.rst .. include:: hardware.rst .. include:: software.rst .. include:: internals.rst diff --git a/popularity.rst b/popularity.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a65a66 --- /dev/null +++ b/popularity.rst @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Popularity +---------- + +Available sources disagree on the actual number of installations. [liedtke93]_ +mentions 2000 systems were installed by 1985, but [gmdbericht86a]_ counts +only 1000 systems by the end of 1986. Amongst the users were a growing number +of schools: 20 in 1982 ([alwr82]_, part 4, p. 13) and 500 secondary schools by +1986 [computerwoche86b]_. A few of them are known by name: Helmholtz-Gymnasium +Bonn [computerwoche79b]_ [gmdspiegel84b]_, Rhein-Sieg-Gymnasium located in +Sankt Augustin [gmdbericht82]_ and Max-Planck-Gymnasium Bielefeld. EUMEL was +also by HRZ Bielefeld and at GMD Bonn, as well as TU Berlin [hahn79]_ and TU +Darmstadt. + +A survey amongst lawyers from Hannover in 1994 revealed four of 56 (7%) law +offices still ran EUMEL machines eight years after intruduction of ErgoJUR and +advodat [jurpc94]_. + +By mid 1985 support for the Japanese *Kanji* writing system was added to EUMEL +[gmdspiegel85d]_. A newly founded corporation *NISSIN Products Corp. Tokyo* +sold the product on the Japanese market [gmdbericht85]_. + |