Re: [patch] kill off PC9800

[Adrian Bunk]

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

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