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Subject: AI Software Revenues
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Date: Sat, 28-Feb-87 14:18:00 EST
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Artificial intelligence software generated $200 million dollars in
revenue in 1986.  Expert system tools generated 18.6 million.
To put these numbers in perspective, the total software market is
12.3 billion and CAD/CAE software is 665 million.
Also sold in 1986, was
464 million dollars worth of robot systems and 100 million dollars
worth of vision equipment.