From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 30 20:38:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA27153 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 20:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA27147 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 20:38:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id UAA21379; Fri, 30 May 1997 20:53:00 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 20:53:00 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199705310253.UAA21379@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Pentium II released Newsgroups: kithrup.freebsd.hardware In-Reply-To: <199705251747.KAA17807@kithrup.com> References: <199705231702.KAA29056@george.lbl.gov> <19970523142235.11747@ct.picker.com> <338726E2.6A9D29F4.kithrup.freebsd.hardware@persprog.com> <199705251747.KAA17807@kithrup.com> Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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, 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com