Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 May 2004 18:36:44 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [patch] kill off PC9800 |
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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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