Due to popular demand, or atleast 57,89% wasn't tired of last years survey
when they were close to the end <g>, the annual SurvPC survey is back. This
year (as you may already have noticed) it also goes out to the Arachne list
since no less than 45,95% of the people who answered last year also read
that list.
I also never did mail back this year to the people that wanted changes, and
once upon a time I dreamt I would let you add (if you wanted to) the
information to a MySQL database on arachne.cz through a HTML interface so I
wouldn't need to put it all together but alas - I was too lazy and will now
get a lot extra work as punishment... :/
Please mail all answers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT to any of the
lists) and try to cut out all that isn't needed Preferly just state "1. M"
or "1. m" (if that's correct on the first question). Please understand that
you do not need to answer all questions (or any of them for that matter).
The information will NOT be used for any advertisment or anything like that
it's just to provide some information for the users of the list(s) about
each other.
I've tried to make it as easy as possible for me to read it later on so
please answer with the characther infront of each answer if nothing else is
specified. Please ignore that case isn't the same everywhere and all (this
is almost the same mail as last years so there might still be some) the
typos I've made.
Personal info:
1. What's your gender?
f Female
m Male
o/u Other/Unknown ;-)
2. What's your age?
3. Where do you live? (Country and continent if needed (ex. Russia is on
two continents))
4 a. Is English your first language?
4 b. If not, what is (in english please)?
Programming:
5. What (programming) languages do you know:
a Assembler (aka ASM)
b Basic
b2 Batch
c C
c2 C++
c3 Cobol
d Delphi
f Fortran
h HTML
j Java
j2 JavaScript
o Other
p2 Perl
r REXX
p Pascal
v Visual Basic
v2 Visual C++
v3 Visual Java and/or Visual J++
v4 Visual JavaScript
The list:
6. How long have you been reading the list(s):
SURVPC:
Started on september 29 1998
Sa sep. 1998 - feb. 1999
Sb - sep. 1999
Sc - feb. 2000
Sd - sep. 2000
Arachne:
Unknown start date, if you happen to know please let me know
Aa - jul. 1997
Ab - jan. 1998
Ac - jul. 1998
Ad - jan. 1999
Ae - jul. 1999
Af - jan. 2000
Ag - jul. 2000
Ah - sep. 2000
7. Do you ever mail to the list?
SurvPC:
SY Yes
SN No
S- n/a
Arachne:
AY Yes
AN No
A- n/a
8. Are you subscribed to any other list?
n NetTamer
d DR/OpenDOS list (on whatever server they might be on and what name they
have)
g GEM (any GEM list)
o Other
Your computer(s):
9. When did you first get/buy a computer? (year only)
10. What computer(s) do you have (ex. '2x 1P 1O'):
(Please note that this is what *class* the computer is (another name might
be valid in one of the groups since I might have forgotten some of them)
'Other' is meant for ex. Amiga)
x PC/XT
a AT
3 386
4 486
5 586
6 686
k AMD K5/6
k2 AMD K6-2
k3 AMD K6-3
k4 AMD Athlon
c Celeron
p Pentium
pm Pentium MMX
pp Pentium Pro
p2 Pentium II
p3 Pentium III
o Other
11. What Operating System(s) do they run: (ex. '2M 1L/M/W' for 2 running
MS-DOS and 1 that runs Linux, MS-DOS and Windows NT)
M MS-DOS
D DR/Open/Lineo-DOS
N NovellDOS
F FreeDOS
P PTS-DOS
R RxDOS
I PC/IBM-DOS
L Linux
B BEOS
2 OS/2
W Windows NT (including Windows 2000)
O Other (please specify)
12. What Graphical User Interfaces do they run:
W1 MS Windows 1.x
W2 MS Windows 2.x
W3 MS Windows 3.x
W4 MS Windows 4.x (aka Windows 95, 98 and Millenium)
D DosShell
X X11 (aka X-Windows)
O Other (please specify)
N None
13 a. DOS only:
If you use a diffrent shell then the normal command.com please specify which.
13 b. Linux only:
What shell do you use?
The InterNet:
14. When did you get your InterNet "connection"? (year only)
15. In what way to do access the InterNet:
c "Cable Modem"
i1 ISDN (single line = 64K)
i2 ISDN (dual line = 128K)
l LAN
m1 bellow 14400 modem
m2 14400
m3 28800
m4 33600
m5 "56000"
x xDSL
u Unknown
16. Do you access the Internet from:
b BBS (or equal)
h Home
l Library (or equal, "cybercaf�" for instance)
w Work/School
Rather useless questions:
17. Would you answer people with 'RTFM' if they ask something that's
covered in the FAQ?
Note: The FAQ for SURVPC was dropped AFAIK while there's still work on the
Arachne FAQ.
y Yes
n No
u Unknown
18. What browser(s) do you use:
a Arachne
n NetTamer
n2 Netscape
i InterNet Explorer
l Lynx (any name)
b BobCat
d DR WebSpyder/EmBrowser
o Opera
o2 Other (please specify)
19. Do you think the survey is boring at this stage?
y Yes
n No
s Somewhat/Wants to do something else
i Needs improvment
u Unknown
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