28 Jan
2010
28 Jan
'10
6:23 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
The 8086, as I recall, was intended to be a stopgap
product until the
432 could be shipped in quantity.
They tried so many times to kill this bastard ...
iapx432,
i860 (not sure if they really tried,
titanic, didn't work out either
I do recall our Intel sales guy
pitching how great the 432 was going to be at the
time. When we saw
the initial prices for the chipset (calling the 432 a "single chip
microcomputer" ISTR, was a misnomer), our jaws hit the floor.
When it was presented to us, I was just amazed that they compared it to
our 11/780 which could be easily replaced by the iapx432. They only need
a few of them
Perhaps the 432 was "too much too soon".
Nowadays, it'd probably be
possible to implement it in a large FPGA.
It should definitely fit in a mid-size FPGA, but is there really any
software out there for it ?