23 May
2001
23 May
'01
3:43 p.m.
On May 23, Carlos Murillo wrote:
I remember that there were ISA boards with multiple
i860's
offered back then; the idea was to have lots of number-crunching
power in a PC back then. However, I never saw similar
The MicroWay NumberSmasher/860 comes to mind. Impressive specs,
even by today's standards. I'd love to get my paws on one or more of
those.
products based on i960. I believe that the i860 was
geared
more towards float processing/embedded control/multi user OS/
parallel processing architectures and the i960 was strictly for
embedded control, with emphasis on integer performance.
You'll find i960's in many HP laser printers.
And many non-HP printers as well. The '960 is also well-suited for
non-embedded applications.
-Dave McGuire