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From: steve@wattres.uucp (Steve Watt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OPEN LOOK announced first (was: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend?
Summary: The 6000 was only on the market for *how* long in '90?
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.073447.5732@wattres.uucp>
Date: 14 Feb 91 07:34:47 GMT
References: <5478@trantor.harris-atd.com> <857@sdrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt)
Organization: Steven Watt, Consultant
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In article <857@sdrc.UUCP> wggabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard) writes:
>From article <5478@trantor.harris-atd.com>, by chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano):
>> 	Sun		151,000
>> 	HP PA		 10,000
>> 	MIPS		 45,900
>> 	IBM POWER	  8,000
>> [some stuff removed] Sun enjoys a clear advantage in unit volume.  
>
>Considering that the 680x0 units account for most of HP's business on both the
> [ more removed ]

It should also be pointed out the the IBM RS/6000 was only available for the
last 3 months (or so) of 1990.  Not a bad showing for a brand new product, if
you ask me.  Comparing total sales volume is mostly meaningless.  It's much
better to compare sales volume for a comparable amount of time.

  In general (bias coming), I would prefer that people do two things for
postings like this:
	1)  Don't post.  (Well, I can hope, anyway...) :)

	2)  If you must post, take *all* systems and factors into account.

  I know of a fairly large number of IBM RTs that are running Motif (painful
though it is), and I know that SCO's Open Desktop is doing fairly well, and
it's also Motif-based.  Sorry, but I don't have any figures of number of RTs
or 80x86en that are running Motif, but I suspect there are a lot of them.
-- 
Steve Watt
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