23 May
2001
23 May
'01
2 p.m.
At 05:14 PM 5/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
On May 23, Eric Dittman wrote:
The i860 did find success as an embedded controller, though. Still does,
too.
I remember that there were ISA boards with multiple i860's
offered back then; the idea was to have lots of number-crunching
power in a PC back then. However, I never saw similar
products based on i960. I believe that the i860 was geared
more towards float processing/embedded control/multi user OS/
parallel processing architectures and the i960 was strictly for
embedded control, with emphasis on integer performance.
You'll find i960's in many HP laser printers.
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
all the delays. I could be completely off, but
didn't some
of the processor features get implemented in the i860?
Yes. Was slow too ;-)
I never did look at the i960 features; was it an
improved
i860 or was it a completely new processor?
Completely new processor..
-Dave McGuire