23 Sep
2022
23 Sep
'22
10:23 p.m.
On Fri, 23 Sept 2022 at 23:57, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I believe (I'll have to check) that in the Osborne-McGraw-Hill/Intel
i860 book there's a quote from BillG saying that Microsoft was committed
to developing for the 860 as a personal computer CPU.
I think that never happened...it would have been interesting, however.
The closest I know of is that the early (late-1980s) versions of what
was then OS/2 NT were built on i860 boards, codenamed "Razzle". The
Smithsonian has one:
https://www.si.edu/object/microsoft-windows-nt-development-board-pcr1-rev1-…
There are a handful of mentions of them here and there:
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32510
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181224-00/?p=100545
The codename of the first version of the i860 was "N-Ten" which is
where the "NT" product name originated:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110720042038/http://www.winsupersite.com/arti…
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