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From: mason@ryesone.UUCP (Dave Mason)
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Subject: Re: Any 32000 series news?
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 14:35:28 EDT
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> Internet: ralphw@c.cs.cmu.edu writes:
>
> 2)  What's the prognosis for the 32000 series, given the serious competetion
> from Motorola and Intel?  Seems like everybody except Symmetrix and Definicon
> use 80{,2,3}86 or 680[012]0.  Most compilers only need to be written once,
> so what other advantage might National have?  Can they build 200Mhz GaAs
> 32000-series chipset before Motorola and Intel and save themselves?

A recent Electronics was discussing 32 bit processors and said a couple of
interesting things:
1) ~1990 The market is expected to be 680x0 & 80x86	~60%
					ns32000		~18%
   (these numbers may be off a bit)	we3????		~11%
					others		~10%
   many of the people developing large-scale multi-processors (eg Sequent)
   are going with ns32000

2) It is claimed that the Japanese are going to get left out in the cold.
   The window of oppurtunity is closing on new architectures, and the majour
   American manufacturers are leary of cross-licensing agreements (and the
   copyright laws are getting much tighter)
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