Wanted: iAPX-432

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Wed May 23 22:43:02 2001

On May 23, Carlos Murillo wrote:
> 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

  The MicroWay NumberSmasher/860 comes to mind. Impressive specs,
even by today's standards. I'd love to get my paws on one or more of
those.

> 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.

  And many non-HP printers as well. The '960 is also well-suited for
non-embedded applications.

         -Dave McGuire
Received on Wed May 23 2001 - 22:43:02 BST