20 Aug
2013
20 Aug
'13
11:58 a.m.
On 08/20/2013 10:31 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
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.)
It took me some time to jog my memory as to where I'd seen the squib,
but I finally located it in Nearl Margulis' Intel/Osborne-McGraw Hill
book "i860 Microprocessor Architecture" (1990, ISBN 0-07-881645-9) on
page 5, quoting BillG:
"We fully expect to see a whole new generation of high-performance
systems built on i860 microprocessor technology that will challenge the
current standards in that market. Although projections indicate the
first use of the i860 microprocessor will be in the technical computing
market, eventually we expect to see application of this chip in the
personal computer market...(This) will bring the computation power of
supercomputers to PCs."
FWIW, the book itself is not particularly a masterwork of clarity and
organization.
Strangely enough, this book was sitting next to Conklin's "OS/2
Notebook" of the same year in which BillG, in a joint press conference
with Cannavino, extols the wonderfulness of Microsoft OS/2 2.0. Of
course, we know that BillG was sharpening his dirk to plunge into
Cannavino's back while he was making those utterances.
--Chuck