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From: omtzigt-theo@CS.YALE.EDU (Erwinus Theodorus Leonardus Omtzigt (Theo))
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Subject: Number of Workstations out there (was Re: CISC Silent Spring)
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Date: 6 Feb 90 20:32:17 GMT
References: <8859@portia.Stanford.EDU> <521@dino.cs.iastate.edu>
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Reply-To: omtzigt-theo@CS.YALE.EDU (Erwinus Theodorus Leonardus Omtzigt (Theo))
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Summary:

In article <521@dino.cs.iastate.edu> hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
>
>     Not everyone in the world is an engineer, not everyone needs or
>     wants an engineering workstation.  In fact, while workstations
>     may be the glamour boys, there really aren't that many of them
>     compared to the many "less exciting" uses of [micro]processors.
>
>
>John Hascall

What is the actual number of workstations out there. I`ve read in
EE Times, I believe, that Sun's projected sales of Sparc stations is
about 175,000 a year. Is that right? And to be more specific what is
the distribution of the processors used in the workstations. Let`s
narrow it down to 80x86 versus 680xx versus Rx000 versus Sparc versus
88000 versus HP-PA versus Vax, oh and not to forget 320xx and 29000 
(and Acorn etc. etc.).

Theo Omtzigt
omtzigt-theo@cs.yale.edu