Intel i960 evaluation board

From: allisonp <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri Apr 21 18:10:51 2000

>i960, or i860? I wasn't aware that any i960 Unix boxes had been shipped.
>
>The i960 family was the stripped-down commercial version of the ill-fated
>Gemini (P7) 33-bit (not a typo!) processor, a collaboration between Intel
>and Siemens. The two companies created a workstation company called BiiN
>to sell the workstations, and although they shipped some prerelease
>machines, AFAIK they never offered any for sale.


It also grew from the 8089 (20 bit) and the 8751(8bit) for embedded
processing
tasks like engine controls.

Allison
Received on Fri Apr 21 2000 - 18:10:51 BST