Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!reading!minster!martin From: martin@minster.york.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Microprocessors and market forces Message-ID: <643631673.23506@minster.york.ac.uk> Date: 25 May 90 10:34:33 GMT References: <1990May14.141148.9884@xavax.com> <29972@cup.portal.com> <1990May18.170721.12758@utzoo.uucp> <1990May22.072208.15547@city.ac.uk> Reply-To: martin@SoftEng.UUCP (martin) Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England Lines: 22 In article <1990May22.072208.15547@city.ac.uk> sb380@city.ac.uk (HOLT A D) writes: >In article mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason) writes: >> ..... >>>It wasn't for want of trying; a lot of people lost their shirts on it. >>>The successful ones can be counted on your thumbs. >> >>(That's how you do it Henry, you have extra hands :-) I count at least >>Encore, Sequent, Whitechapel,... in the Unix market. 32000s are also >>very popular in Laserprinters) >> >But Whitechapel went bust .... >(and Sequent changed to the Intel chip - don't know about Encore) Yes, and the machines that Whitechapel were working on, when they went bust, were based on the MIPS R3000!!! > >Andy > >who needs a signature anyhow? Indeed!