Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!cdollin!kers From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Re: MIPS, Compaq and Microsoft in bed - NYT story (TRY AGAIN, SORRY) Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 91 14:21:39 GMT References: <29920@usc> <0094412A.15FE5B40@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>,<1991Feb11.221951.4758@berlioz.nsc.com> <0 Sender: news@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: torbenm@diku.dk's message of 12 Feb 91 16:36:29 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: cdollin.hpl.hp.com Torben [gidius Mogensen writes: .... As for the market, Acorn has passed the 100.000 machines sold mark, probably making the ARM the second-most sold RISC processor (after SPARC). Acording to Acorn [Ray Pinchard, Acorn rep, January meeting of Avon Archimides User Group], Acorn have a little *more* than half of the RISC processor market; remember that ARM chips appear in video records (I used to know which make) and - I think - Olivetti laser printers. Wandering sideways to a different thread, the ARM memory controller gives you pages of 32 (yes, thirty-two) Kbytes. It pigged the performance of the first ARM Unix engine. [The page size isn't any smaller on the more recent ARM3 machines, but the available physical memory is bigger, and I *hope* Acorn are building a revised memory controller with a more, hm, acceptable pagesize.] -- Regards, Kers. | "You're better off not dreaming of the things to come; Caravan: | Dreams are always ending far too soon."