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From: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Architecture Wars, again; survey
Message-ID: <1742@garth.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 18:25:24 GMT
References: <7316@winchester.mips.COM> <75478@sun.uucp> <10770@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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In article <10770@cup.portal.com> bcase@cup.portal.com (Brian bcase Case) writes:
>Intergraph claims to have shipped the largest number of RISC (stretching
>it a bit, but...) microprocessors, with something like "over 50000
>served."  Has SUN surpassed this number?

I think it's 18,000 through the third quarter, which makes us the
leader in merchant market RISC microprocessors.  (Clipper C100's, and
now C300's)  As the "Microprocessor Report" points out, this is largely
because we've been making them so long.

I believe that rumors of SPARC's death have been greatly exaggerated,
though one could wish... :-)  The RISC wars are over?!  It seems more
like they're just beginning in earnest now that some of the more recent
combattants are just taking the field.

Perspective:  How many 386's and 68020's have shipped?  At least 18,001?
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