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glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:

>>[Daniel Cohen:]
>>All credit to Inmos for surviving in difficult circumstances; just
>>maybe they will seriously threaten Inmos some day!

>Inmos threatening Inmos!  Now isn't that a typical British computer story!

>(Look, I'm allowed to say this: (1) I'm a British national; (2) I'm a
>Canadian national as well, and I could almost as easily has said
>"Canadian computer story"; (3) It's funny. Well, maybe my post isn't
>funny, but the original typo is.  Go on, laugh already.)
>--
>Andy Glew, glew@ichips.intel.com
>Intel Corp., M/S JF1-19, 5200 NE Elam Young Parkway, 
>Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-6497

Quoting from the RISC Management Newsletter 1/1/91

RISC Processor Unit Shipments (000s)

Processor             1989     1990     cum.

transputer             190      240      540
SPARC                   83      185      275
Rx000                   35       90      130
Am29000                 12       85       97
i960                     8       65       73
i860               samples       65       65
ARM                     40       55      145
M88100                  10       50       60
CLIPPER                 33       23       68

Totals                 411      858     1453

So, INMOS are only surviving are we? Looks to me like we are holding the
lead in RISC processor sales.

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