Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!husc6!encore!zelig!jdarcy From: jdarcy@encore.com (Jeff d'Arcy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's?? Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 90 03:49:08 GMT References: <1536@ftc.framentec.fr> <1990Oct19.120218.9450@canterbury.ac.nz> <15497@hydra.gatech.EDU> <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> Sender: news@Encore.COM Lines: 18 mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes: >Of course it is not the demise. I do suspect that it means there is >little likelihood of 88K presence in the higher end of the technical >workstation market, leaving as possibilities mid-range (maybe, due to >DG, Omron), and multi-user commercial (seems more likely: Moto, DG, Norsk). I don't know about this part. Encore's plans for the 88K are pretty hefty machines, and Dolphin's not too far off the mark either. I wouldn't be at all surprised if DG had some plans for a big 88K multi either. My personal opinion is quite the opposite of yours: I think SPARC and MIPS will have most of the workstation market (low and high end, respectively) but that the 88K will become more popular in the high end servers, especially multis. The obvious exception to this trend is SGI (and, in the future, DEC), but overall I think 88Ks will sell into that market very well. -- Jeff d'Arcy, Generic Software Engineer - jdarcy@encore.com Nothing was ever achieved by accepting reality