Wanted: iAPX-432

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Wed May 23 21:00:36 2001

At 05:14 PM 5/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On May 23, Eric Dittman wrote:
>> > > all the delays. I could be completely off, but didn't some
>> > > of the processor features get implemented in the i860?
>> > Yes. Was slow too ;-)
>> The i860 did find success as an embedded controller, though.
> Still does, too.
>> I never did look at the i960 features; was it an improved
>> i860 or was it a completely new processor?
>
> Completely new processor..
> -Dave McGuire

I remember that there were ISA boards with multiple i860's
offered back then; the idea was to have lots of number-crunching
power in a PC back then. However, I never saw similar
products based on i960. I believe that the i860 was geared
more towards float processing/embedded control/multi user OS/
parallel processing architectures and the i960 was strictly for
embedded control, with emphasis on integer performance.
You'll find i960's in many HP laser printers.

carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Wed May 23 2001 - 21:00:36 BST