20 Apr
2000
20 Apr
'00
4:52 p.m.
I just picked up three of the Intel EV80960SX evaluation boards. They're
evaluation boards for the Intel 80960 processors. There's a picture of one
at "www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/misc/int80960.jpg". Does anyone have the
specs or any docs for them?
Joe
20 Apr
20 Apr
5:21 p.m.
Re:
I just picked up three of the Intel EV80960SX
evaluation boards. They're
evaluation boards for the Intel 80960 processors. There's a picture of one
at "www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/misc/int80960.jpg". Does anyone have the
specs or any docs for them?
No, but I have an i960 based Unix machine I wouldn't mind trading away.
(It works, but I can't logon ... don't know the root password, and
haven't had time to crack it)
SS
Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com
www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler
21 Apr
21 Apr
9:50 a.m.
Stan wrote:
No, but I have an i960 based Unix machine I
wouldn't mind trading away.
(It works, but I can't logon ... don't know the root password, and
haven't had time to crack it)
i960, or i860? I wasn't aware that any i960 Unix boxes had been shipped.
The i960 family was the stripped-down commercial version of the ill-fated
Gemini (P7) 33-bit (not a typo!) processor, a collaboration between Intel
and Siemens. The two companies created a workstation company called BiiN
to sell the workstations, and although they shipped some prerelease
machines, AFAIK they never offered any for sale.
Intel dropped the 33rd bit and some of the fancy object-oriented features
to produce the i960. Only a few of the i960 variants contain an MMU, and
most of them don't even have floating point. Intel ended up pushing them
as embedded controllers.
11:27 a.m.
Hi,
Oops...mental typo. I meant i860.
Sorry!
SS
Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com
www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler
No, but I have
an i960 based Unix machine I wouldn't mind trading away.
i960, or i860? I
wasn't aware that any i960 Unix boxes had been shipped. 
20 Apr
20 Apr
7:07 p.m.
On 2000/04/20 at 8:52pm -0500, you wrote:
I just picked up three of the Intel EV80960SX
evaluation boards. They're
evaluation boards for the Intel 80960 processors. There's a picture of one
at "www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/misc/int80960.jpg". Does anyone have the
specs or any docs for them?
A little. I've never seen this particular board, but have a short
description of it in a data book. It's not quite ten years old :-)
The i960 is a rather nice 32-bit RISC architecture; the 80960SA is at the
bottom end of the family, lacking floating point and MMU, and having a
16-bit external data bus.
The board you have has 1/2M to 4M DRAM, some EPROM, possibly two flash,
two serial ports, one parallel port (input only), Canon print engine
interface, & processor signals brought out (presumably to the large white
connector). The EPROMs most likely contain a monitor that works over one
of the serial ports. I can't remember whether you can do anything with
just a terminal or whether you need particular host software.
Since some i960s are still in production, you can most likely get
information and software from Intel.
--
Kevin Schoedel
schoedel(a)kw.igs.net
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