Wanted: iAPX-432

From: joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu May 24 14:33:08 2001

At 10:00 PM 5/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
>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.


     You also find them in a most X-terminals. In fact, I think every
X-terminal that I have checked used them.

      Joe


>carlos.
>
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>Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Thu May 24 2001 - 14:33:08 BST