From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 4 16:11:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id QAA23782 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:11:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.hda.com (ip10-max1-fitch.ziplink.net [199.232.245.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA23777 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:11:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA27427; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 19:08:40 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199612050008.TAA27427@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: Nentendo-64 port In-Reply-To: <199612042033.MAA29603@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Dec 4, 96 12:33:24 pm" To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 19:08:39 -0500 (EST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, dufault@hda.com, chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > [takes out his wand of office] > > > > "I now dub thee Sir Dufault, master of the N64 port!" (I kneel, yet the wand isn't working - maybe you didn't pick up the red hat by the waterfall?) > their wwebsite: http://www.Mips.com/immersion.html > says "800,000 units had been shipped" and they > "3.6 million systems in the first nine months of availability" > > this could be the biggest installed base we have seen yet > > (discounting the microprocessors found in cars ;) The same article said the original estimate for US shipments in the last quarter of this year was 500K. They'll manage 750K and now estimate they could sell 2.5 million. The original estimate was based on the "unprecedented" sales rate in Japan that the website you reference touts. If anything bloodies MS it has to be something like this. I keep wondering what happens if anyone aggresively persues the constant performance curve. -- Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267