From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263671AbUEPQgx (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 May 2004 12:36:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263679AbUEPQgx (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 May 2004 12:36:53 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:47050 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263671AbUEPQgv (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 May 2004 12:36:51 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 18:36:44 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Norman Diamond Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] kill off PC9800 Message-ID: <20040516163644.GN22742@fs.tum.de> References: <035e01c43b18$69ede9f0$b7ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <035e01c43b18$69ede9f0$b7ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 04:35:19PM +0900, Norman Diamond wrote: >... > When were PowerPC, MIPS (other than embedded), and Alpha chips last > manufactured, and how popular are they? >... All of them are still manufactored. Each of these three architectures has more than one machine manufactured 2003 listed as one of the 500 fastest computers in the world (place 2 and 3 are Alpha and PowerPC machines that are faster than the fastest i386 and ia64 machines in the world) [1]. SGI still sells many MIPS-based computers running IRIX. With at about 3 million computers and notebooks sold with a preinstalled Unix in 2003, PowerPC is definitely one of the most popular Unix platforms today. cu Adrian [1] http://www.top500.org -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed