Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!transfer!lectroid!bigbootay!dswartz From: dswartz@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Information on MC88110 requested Message-ID: <6345@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> Date: 28 Jun 91 15:46:14 GMT References: <1991Jun25.081724.21339@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA> <43704@cup.portal.com> Sender: usenet@lectroid.sw.stratus.com Reply-To: dswartz@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) Distribution: comp Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering. Lines: 58 In article kan@bugs-bunny.rtp.dg.com (Victor Kan) writes: :I hope this didn't get out twice! : :::::: On 27 Jun 91 04:44:37 GMT, mc@flutter.tv.tek.com (Mike Coleman) said: : :Mike> In article <43704@cup.portal.com> mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) writes: : : :: If the IBM/Apple deal goes through, which looks likely at this point, the :: future of the 88000 is in serious doubt. Motorola is likely to make RS/6000 :: processors, and this is likely to divert most of its design efforts. : :Mike: What about all the 88k's that will be going into Ford automobiles? It seems like that :Mike: will be a major chunk of business for them. : :IBM/Japan is selling Stratus 88k-based machines which will be launched :in the U.S. this fall. : This is news to me! Stratus doesn't make any 88K-based products! (We were going to a couple of years ago, but switched to the 80860.) :Hmmm...I wonder which is projected to ship more units: : :IBM RS/6000s and SparcStations, or Ford F-150 trucks and Escorts? : :Does anyone have sales projections on the workstation/minicomputer and :automobile markets? : :I would guess that the workstation/minicomputer market (excluding PCs, :Macs, etc.) ships maybe O(100,000) units per year. I would guess that :the automobile industry ships maybe O(1,000,000) units per year. : :Assuming Sparcs will be in 2/5 of all WS/mini shipments and 88ks will :be in 1/5 of all new car shipments, the 88k appears to fare quite :well on sheer volume. : :I think it's unlikely that Motorola will be putting an 881x0 CPU into :a black box to control a car's engine. That would be a waste of :money; my guess is that there will be a special version of the 88k for :embedded applications. : :Who knows; maybe they will use an 881x0 in there and add stuff like a :heads up display controller with online graphical roadmaps that :respond to voice commands! : :Just call me KITT :-). : :-- :| Victor Kan | I speak only for myself. | *** :| Data General Corporation | Edo emacibus, ergo sum. | **** :| 62 T.W. Alexander Drive | Columbia Lions Win, 8 October 1988 for | **** %%%% :| RTP, NC 27709 | a record of 1-44. Way to go, Lions! | *** %%% -- Dan S.