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From: wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Market share
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Date: 24 Jul 90 05:27:15 GMT
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> 	Economically, Forth is drawing more dollars this year than
> ever before. It just ain't happening in that ivory tower all you
> desktoppers and mainframers live in :-)
>
> 	The control programming market in the U.S. has been estimated
> at $2 billion dollars annually. (EDN) Estimates of Forth's share of
> that market range from 9% to 15%.

I guess us desktoppers are just going to have to be left out ...
But wait ... let's work out a few numbers.

100,000 Sun SPARCstation1's/year (and increasing) * $9000 base price
= $ 0.9 billion dollars.  Every one of them has a live Forth interpreter
in the boot PROM.

Let's look at it another way.  Last year Sun sold about $3 billion dollars
worth of iron, and Sun is still growing.  All future Sun machines will have
Forth in the boot PROM.

Oh, well, I guess jax is right.  We can ignore the desktop market.  :-)

Mitch