Overhyped Innovations (was Re: OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac Classic prob (was Macintoshes..
27 Jun
1998
27 Jun
'98
1:53 a.m.
Wasn't the i960 (the new Fast Ethernet chip) based on 432 archeticture?
Ciao,
Tim
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From: Allison J Parent <allisonp(a)world.std.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
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Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Overhyped Innovations (was Re: OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac
Classic prob (was Macintoshes..
<I remember back in '98 when Doug Yowza wrote:
<> The Z8000. The iAPX432. Parallel processing. Voice recognition.
< ^^^^^^^
<So you actually posess a 432 based machine? Impressive. I have only
<really heard about them in literature. Always sounded interesting.
I have Intel docs for them. Old now, like early 80s.
Allison
27 Jun
27 Jun
2:30 a.m.
I remember back in '98 when Hotze wrote:
Wasn't the i960 (the new Fast Ethernet chip) based
on 432 archeticture?
Lesse--the i960 has been used for lots of embedded-type applications for
some time now (10 years?). It's introduction (along with the more
complex i860) were probably based on 432 work, but the 960 was much
more conventional (or so I've heard!)
I remember seeing adds in some general PC-type mags c. 1991 for
coproscessor boards w. 860's onboard to stick in your pc to give
"cray" performance. :-) Yeah.
Matt
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