31 Aug
2006
31 Aug
'06
3:34 a.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 08:42 pm, Tony Duell wrote:
>A serious question : Was the Pentium ever used in a non-PC compatible? I
>know the 386 was -- there was a least one Sun that used it, and those
>interesting Sequent multi-processor 386 machines. Anything similar with
>the Pentium? If so, (and if they're more than 10 years old or whatever),
>I think I could easily consider those to be classic computers.
Interesting question. I know that the last time I was
paying attention to
that area, embedded systems were starting to use 386 chips. And my Tek
scope has an 8088 in it...
After all, it doesn't doesn't realy matter what CPU is used, as
long as it does it's job as a black box controll system.
But yeah, Pentiums (and alikes) are already the base for most new
embedded developments. In fact, the classic 186 core that has been
ruling the landscape for a long time gets as rare as Z80-based
cores.
Beside Intels Marketing Mumbo, there's no real difference between
Pentium alike, 486 or 386 cores - especialy since manufaturing cost
for all of those, now 'low' desity structures have levelt.
Gruss
H.
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