Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!inmos!steved@lion.inmos.co.uk From: steved@lion.inmos.co.uk (Stephen Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: iWarp Architecture Overview (was: LONG) Message-ID: <16586@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> Date: 13 Jun 91 09:37:51 GMT References: <1991Jun3.172230.6901@iWarp.intel.com> <2622@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <4077@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> Sender: news@inmos.co.uk Reply-To: steved@inmos.co.uk (Stephen Doyle) Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK. Lines: 43 glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes: >>[Daniel Cohen:] >>All credit to Inmos for surviving in difficult circumstances; just >>maybe they will seriously threaten Inmos some day! >Inmos threatening Inmos! Now isn't that a typical British computer story! >(Look, I'm allowed to say this: (1) I'm a British national; (2) I'm a >Canadian national as well, and I could almost as easily has said >"Canadian computer story"; (3) It's funny. Well, maybe my post isn't >funny, but the original typo is. Go on, laugh already.) >-- >Andy Glew, glew@ichips.intel.com >Intel Corp., M/S JF1-19, 5200 NE Elam Young Parkway, >Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-6497 Quoting from the RISC Management Newsletter 1/1/91 RISC Processor Unit Shipments (000s) Processor 1989 1990 cum. transputer 190 240 540 SPARC 83 185 275 Rx000 35 90 130 Am29000 12 85 97 i960 8 65 73 i860 samples 65 65 ARM 40 55 145 M88100 10 50 60 CLIPPER 33 23 68 Totals 411 858 1453 So, INMOS are only surviving are we? Looks to me like we are holding the lead in RISC processor sales. Steve Doyle, | Tel +44 454 616616 INMOS Ltd, 1000 Aztec West | Fax +44 454 617910 Almondsbury | UK: steved@inmos.co.uk Bristol BS12 4SQ, UK | INET: steved@inmos.com