The i860 was in:
Stardent Vistra
AT&T 3d PC accelerator card for TOPAS
both failed in the marketplace, this was the year of the 25MHz Compaq that was almost as
fast, at least running TOPAS. I think the Vistra held on for a bit with Weitek vector
processor supporting it. Stardent (Kubota Computer Graphics) was the largest computer
failure and bankruptcy at the time, late 80s.
From: spectre at
floodgap.com
Subject: Re: Uncommon: Intel Paragon on iOffer
To: cctalk at
classiccmp.org
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:26:52 -0800
Personally I always thought the i860 was far from a stumble, because in
fact it was the highest MFlops/dollar and MFlops/watt for a considerable
length of time and used in a number of high-horsepower applications
in the real world.
And Intel sure sold quite a few i860s. I would bet that most i860s
ended up as coprocessor cards in PeeCees, where they did one task and
did not run into the dreaded pipeline flush context switch problem.
I know I've seen i860s in graphics boards. I think one of the NeXTs used
them as well.
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