Other interesting Intel chips (was iAPX 432 (was Re: 88000 machines))

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Mon Jun 17 13:32:51 2002

>From: "Eric Smith" <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
>
>It's pretty tough to get iAPX 432 stuff. The software is even more
>difficult to find than the boards or chips.
>

Hi
 The 432 stuff is really hard to get. I do have another almost as
hard to find Intel item. It is a evaluation setup for the i2920,
not to be confused with the AMD 2920. It is an early DSP chip.
It was Intel's idea of what should be done in DSP. It was not
too successful because it was not a general purpose type processor
like the TI and Motorola DSP entries. It was designed to do
a single program, repetitively. One of the example programs
was to make a simple spectrum analyzer. You'd feed analog
data in and it would run an oscilloscope as the display.
It would just need a anti-aliasing filter for the input
and connect to the scope.
 Some of the other hard to find Intel parts are things like
the 8021 and 8022 parts. Although not as rare, the 3000 series
bit slice parts are getting harder to find as well but these
were used on many of the older Multibus disk controller cards.
Dwight
Received on Mon Jun 17 2002 - 13:32:51 BST