Interesting 486 motherboard that accepts an I860

From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd_at_jdboyd.net>
Date: Tue Aug 24 12:12:37 2004

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:19:32PM -0500, Tom Hudson wrote:
> You know, I was at Intel's press conference where they rolled out the
> I860, and I couldn't wait to rewrite come of my graphics code for it. I
> remember thinking how it was going to revolutionize the computer
> graphics industry. Then it kind of dropped off the map. Shows what I know.

I don't know what a revolution requires, but the use of those chips in
the SGI RE and RE2 boardsets certainly has left a large impact on many
of us.

I loved the Onyx RE2 I spent many hours on. The newer less than
10y.o. SGI stuff I currently use is also nice (and probably faster for
many things), but it just isn't the same.
Received on Tue Aug 24 2004 - 12:12:37 BST