Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!mips!daver!cypress!mma
From: mma@cypress.UUCP ( F)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
Message-ID: <561@cypress.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 90 22:36:56 GMT
References: <1990Oct14.003906.26373@wolves.uucp> <1536@ftc.framentec.fr> <1990Oct19.120218.9450@canterbury.ac.nz>
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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Sender:Mark Aaldering, FAE

In Article <1990Oct19.120218.9450@canterbury.ac.nz> (Mark Aitchison) writes:

>What does this mean? Are 88K's going the way of Beta vtr systems, or are there
>just too many companies doing workstations. I get the impression Sparcs are so
>far out in front that other chips, even if they're better, are close to doomed.
>Well, that's putting it a bit strong, perhaps, but what is a realistic
>appraisal of the situation?
>Mark (worried) Aitchison, Uni of Canty, New Zealand.

Well Mark, I and others believe your fears are well founded. It appears at this
point in time that the 88k is headed the way of the Dodo bird. Of Course I'm
slightly biased ;-> ... A local rumor surfaced that one of my SPARC customers was
going to drop their 88k product. I called a highly placed engineering contact who
said "We have no plans to drop the 88k, But it appears that the Marketplace
already has."

-> Signatures? We don't need no stink'in Signatures !
                     We're the SPARC Renegades from Hell !