23 May
2001
23 May
'01
3:13 a.m.
I didn't realize that they had ever shipped the
chip. I have a set of
manuals, probably early. There seemed to be a lot of holes in the
architecture -- things that weren't explained, or perhaps had not yet been
figured out. I wanted to get my hands on one a long time ago, but they
dropped it before I ever saw the possibility of geting a chip. I never did
figure out how they implemented their garbage collection.
I remember attending a presentation by one of the engineers
working on the processor. The presentation was interesting
and I wanted to get some samples, but I lost interest after
all the delays. I could be completely off, but didn't some
of the processor features get implemented in the i860?
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Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net