10 Mar
1998
10 Mar
'98
3:27 p.m.
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Jack Peacock wrote:
More recently, Intel designed the 8089 I/O
co-processor as part
of the 8086 family. It had an instruction set optimized for I/O
functions.
Even more recently, Intel is pushing their I2O architecture for PCs. The
basic idea, I think, is to let the Pentium do the general purpose
computing, and use a dedicated 960 running VxWorks to do the I/O.
-- Doug