Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 08:56:42 +0930 (CST) From: grog@FreeBSD.ORG To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Intel Pentium II released Message-ID: <199706030147.LAA02034@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199705310253.UAA21379@obie.softweyr.ml.org> from Wes Peters at "May 30, 97 08:53:00 pm"
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Wes Peters writes: > Sean Eric Fagan writes: >> But this lets me get on a rant: I am sick of Intel right now. They have >> been worrying me for quite a while, as they have a monopoly on the computer >> market. (More than 85% of all processors in the world currently in use are >> Intel processors. That constitutes a monopoly by most economists >> definitions.) > > Well, maybe for "desktop" computers, but not the entire microprocessor > market. Until recently, the largest-selling 32 bit architecture was > still the M68K family, How do you define 'recently'? > which is used by the millions in embedded applications of all sorts. > I think the largest selling single processor is now the NEC VR4300, > clipping along at about a million units per *month.* It is used in > both the Nintendo 64 and the Sony Playstation if you wonder how it > achieved those volumes. I thought that the Nintendos use a MIPS chip. Is the VR4300 the same sort of thing as an R4400 variant? Greg
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