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From: ingoldsb@ctycal.UUCP (Terry Ingoldsby)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MIPS, Compaq and Microsoft in bed - NYT story
Summary: Installed base
Message-ID: <623@ctycal.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 91 19:28:53 GMT
References: <29920@usc>
Organization: The City of Calgary, Ab
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In article <29920@usc>, ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
> 
> How is MIPS faring?  Does someone have hard data for market share?
> The NYT article mentioned the SPARC installed base as being
> 1.18e5 machines; that bullshit - this is more like one years
> sales for Sun alone.

This seems a little low;  according to figures I read in a
magazine (can't remember which one) in 1990 Sun held 38% of the
marketshare (but 27% of the revenue) with 141,800 units.  Since
most of Sun's SPARC sales probably occurred in 1990 the installed
base is probably still under 200,000 units.  Quite respectable, but
not *that* much greater than the figure you quote.

The article I read didn't mention MIPS, but the top 4 (Sun, HP
DEC (which is sort of MIPS) and IBM) took almost 80% of the market
share in 1990.



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