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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 680x0 are NOT obsolete (was Re: TT upgrades)
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Date: 13 Feb 91 22:35:00 GMT
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In article <1540010@hpcc01.HP.COM> wright@hpcc01.HP.COM (Jeff Wright) writes:
>> 2.  Motorola has only two REAL 680x0 customers left: Apple and Motorola.  NeXT
>>     might pick up some slack, but not more than 2-3%...
>> 6.  Motorola has several REAL customers for 88xxx: Data General, Tektronix,
>>     Sequent, Opus, and, of course, Motorola.
>
>Call me biased, but I consider Hewlett Packard to be more *REAL* than any
>of Data General, Tektronix, Sequent, Opus, or Motorola.

   But to be fair, the shipments of all of the above "not Apple" products
   probably don't add up to a tenth of the number of Macs, STs and Amigas
   that go out the door.  Workstations may get the trade-rag hype, but in
   terms of volume consumption of 680x0s they're pretty small potatoes,
   I'd guess.  By that measure (volume==REAL), the original poster is right.
   (Of course, I suppose "REAL" must have different meaning in 88k-land...)

>  Since you're
>apparently not aware, HP does a pretty good business in Motorola 68k
>workstations, partially through the aquisition of Apollo

   Oh, is *that* why you bought us?  I was beginning to wonder...
   And here I thought it was to get discounts on DOMAIN nodes... :>
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