22 Apr
2000
22 Apr
'00
5:22 a.m.
Maybe they were afraid it would collide in the marketplace with their
Pentium.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Pachla <peter.pachla(a)wintermute.org.uk>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: Intel i960 evaluation board
Hi Dick,
controller
That's odd ... I remember the i960 being
touted as the cat's meow
for laser printers and other highly demanding and high-speed embedded
applications....
Yep, it was originally intended as a processor for high-end workstations
etc.
However, certainly by 1992 they'd repositioned it in the embedded arena - it appears in the 1992 edition of their
"embedded controller &
microprocessor" handbooks.
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