20 Aug
2013
20 Aug
'13
10:31 a.m.
On 20 August 2013 17:40, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Wasn't this about the same time that BillG was
endorsing the i860 CPU as a
replacement for the veneered and generated x86?
The i860XR was codenamed the N10.
Dave Cutler's team from DEC completed & brought up IBM's unfinished,
"Portable OS/2", AKA OS/2 v3.x, on MS' "Dazzle" workstations
built
around the N10 chip - the N-Ten version, leading to its new codename
of "OS/2 NT", later to be known as Windows NT.
(After all, there was no point in bringing it up on x86, as that was
the native platform of OS/2 1 and 2. Intel was already strong so the
new RISC chip from Intel must have seemed a good bet.)
So the i860 certainly did have significant influence - just not the
one that Intel expected and BillG repeated (if he actually did - I
don't recall that aspect myself.)
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