Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Apology for Delay Keywords: foo,frah,control,realtime,embedded,systems Message-ID: <84W44NC@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 24 Jul 90 20:29:36 GMT References: <11929@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1640@nyx.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 In article <1640@nyx.UUCP> jjwoehr@nyx.UUCP (jack joseph woehr) writes: > 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%. Hey, that's the business I'm in, and that doesn't agree with my own observations. I'd appreciate some background on where those figures are coming from. I haven't worked in Forth on SCADA for years, and haven't heard of a single Forth sales win in a new SCADA product in some time. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`