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In-Reply-To: <199705310253.UAA21379@obie.softweyr.ml.org> from Wes Peters at "May 30, 97 08:53:00 pm"
To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 08:56:42 +0930 (CST)
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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