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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: i860 vs. i960
- Message-ID: <15547@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:23:09 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.233954.2581@cs.ucla.edu> <DOCONNOR.92Nov18081027@potato.sedona.intel.com>
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- >i960 .... These are intended for "embedded computing"
- >applications, like Postscript interpretation, smart bridges/routers,
- >and avionics.
-
- Well, they are *now*.
-
- Somebody from Intel once indicated that the i960 was *originally*
- intended to be *the* 32-bit microprocessor architecture from Intel, for
- everything from toasters through UNIX boxes to BiiN boxes.
- (Unfortunately, I guess the 386 came along too soon, or the first 960
- came out too late....)
-
- From e.g. statements in Myers and Budde's book on the 960 architecture,
- I can easily believe that was the case. Was it? (No spin-doctoring,
- please; if it was the case, but Intel doesn't want you to say it was the
- case, just don't say anything.)
-