Re: [tlug] TRON / Ken Sakamura in 2003.07.17 Japan Times

[Joe Larabell <larabell@???>]

> > Sakamura "would easily be a dollar billionaire by now, perhaps even
> > rivaling Gates," if Sakamura had charged one cent to each TRON user.
>
> One hundred billion TRON users?  There's only six billion people on this
> planet, and the turn-over is not that high.

Anthropods and aliens aside, the market for embedded systems could easily
be that large if you factor in refrigerators, microwaves, televisions,
etc. Heck, I must have at least a dozen gizmos that have uP's inside.

I doubt all of them have TRON inside. But the embedded market has to be
at least an order of magnitude larger than the desktop/server market. Even
without counting the extra-terestrials ;-)...

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