wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM (07/24/90)
> Economically, Forth is drawing more dollars this year than > ever before. It just ain't happening in that ivory tower all you > desktoppers and mainframers live in :-) > > The control programming market in the U.S. has been estimated > at $2 billion dollars annually. (EDN) Estimates of Forth's share of > that market range from 9% to 15%. I guess us desktoppers are just going to have to be left out ... But wait ... let's work out a few numbers. 100,000 Sun SPARCstation1's/year (and increasing) * $9000 base price = $ 0.9 billion dollars. Every one of them has a live Forth interpreter in the boot PROM. Let's look at it another way. Last year Sun sold about $3 billion dollars worth of iron, and Sun is still growing. All future Sun machines will have Forth in the boot PROM. Oh, well, I guess jax is right. We can ignore the desktop market. :-) Mitch
jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr) (07/26/90)
wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM writes: >> Economically, Forth is drawing more dollars this year than >> ever before. It just ain't happening in that ivory tower all you >> desktoppers and mainframers live in :-) Well, the intent of what I said was to avoid challenges from PC Jockeys who say that they haven't seen many new apps in Forth lately. >> >> The control programming market in the U.S. has been estimated >> at $2 billion dollars annually. (EDN) Estimates of Forth's share of >> that market range from 9% to 15%. Pete "Wolfhugger" DaSilva challenges my numbers. The 2 billion is from EDN in May(?) 1989. The 9% is from the same article. The 15% is from ESP. >I guess us desktoppers are just going to have to be left out ... >Forth in the boot PROM. QED. Your boot PROMS are essentially an embedded control project that makes the SUN run! >Oh, well, I guess jax is right. We can ignore the desktop market. :-) Not really, but they can't ignore us either. Not if they use, for example, Federal Express. Or drive a G.M. automobile. Or read weather reports from NOAA. Or get satellite data from NASA. Or use MCI telephone service. Or exercise on Walker EXSYS exercise equipment ... >Mitch See ya in Vancouver, ya big turkey! :-) <jax@well.{UUCP,sf.ca.us} >< Member, > /// ///\\\ \\\ /// <well!jax@lll-winken.arpa >< X3J14 TC > /// /// \\\ \\\/// <JAX on GEnie >< for ANS > \\\ /// ///====\\\ ///\\\ <SYSOP RCFB (303) 278-0364>< Forth > \\\/// /// \\\ /// \\\