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From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Tue Mar 10 15:27:04 1998

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Jack Peacock wrote:

> More recently, Intel designed the 8089 I/O co-processor as part
> of the 8086 family. It had an instruction set optimized for I/O
> functions.

Even more recently, Intel is pushing their I2O architecture for PCs. The
basic idea, I think, is to let the Pentium do the general purpose
computing, and use a dedicated 960 running VxWorks to do the I/O.

-- Doug
Received on Tue Mar 10 1998 - 15:27:04 GMT