pascal (11/04/82)
the 9900 has found some acceptance in industry. the development support is superb but expensive. speed is definitely a factor. the users i know are either immune to the development system cost (e.g. exxon, johnson controls) or faced performance problems. even with the fast context switching, most software runs too slow to compete in a "performance" oriented marketplace". newer versions (to 20mhz) should overcome the speed problem. ucla (i think) developed a version of brinch hansens architecture. marinchip has an s-100 version doing fine graphics. after all the performance issues are considered, the real reason is probably ti itself. the data systems division, and the semiconductor division do not work together. the dsd versions are all expensive, although perhaps reasonable if quality of construction is an item. there is no marketing support for the semiconductor division at the board level. the favorite micro around corporate engineering these days is the sage. jim tarvid