Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!wuarchive!udel!rochester!rit!cci632!bsw
From: bsw@cci632.UUCP (Brad Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Number of Workstations out there
Message-ID: <33823@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 90 12:03:46 GMT
References: <14513@cs.yale.edu>
Reply-To: bsw@ccird1.UUCP (Brad Werner)
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc. an STC Company, Rochester, NY
Lines: 23

In article <14513@cs.yale.edu> omtzigt-theo@CS.YALE.EDU (Erwinus Theodorus Leonardus Omtzigt (Theo)) writes:
*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

I don't have the reference handy, but in ~July89 Automation, there was an
Intergraph ad [ok, ok, so ads will show what they want, but I've also heard
this elsewhere] that showed the breakdown of the market across various
commercial RISCs.  I recall that the Intergraph CLIPPER was about an order
of magnitude ahead of the other RISCs in workstation market share (perhaps 
SPARC, MIPS Rxxx, ... were the others).  This of course won't come close, 
in my opinion, to workstation [let alone total] use of the 68k line.  I just 
didn't want one of the less well-known processors to be forgotten (guess it
already has been).

-Brad Werner, ...!cci632!ccird1!bsw; These are my opinions-probably only mine.