15 Oct
2005
15 Oct
'05
1:22 a.m.
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
There were certauinly :
Transputer (both all-on-one cards (host adapater + transputer + RAM) and
TRAM motherboards)
[...]
IBM had even produced a 370 as a set of adapter cards for the
original PC. The package was called PC/370.
The processor(s?) were 68000s with IBM microcode. AFAIK they used more
than one, but I am not sure how many.
**vp
15 Oct
15 Oct
10:49 a.m.
Vassilis Prevelakis wrote:
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
There's also the P/390 series. One was Microchannel and two were PCI.
And I seem to recall some number-crunching board with an i860 on it or
something.
Peace... Sridhar
There were certauinly :
Transputer (both all-on-one cards (host adapater + transputer + RAM) and
TRAM motherboards)
[...]
IBM had even produced a 370 as a set of adapter cards for the
original PC. The package was called PC/370. 
6:06 p.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
And I seem to recall some number-crunching board with
an i860 on it or
something.
By Sky Computing, maybe? I have a Sun 670MP with a couple of
coprocessors made by them. It's in storage and I don't have the
inventory handy, but IIRC each VME board had an i960 controller and 4
i860 coprocessors (or maybe vice versa), each with 4MB of cache. It's
effectively a huge FPU.
I'm pretty sure that in looking it up I found references to the same
sort of product for other platforms.
Doc
11:35 p.m.
Doc Shipley wrote:
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Sounds familiar. That might have been it.
Peace... Sridhar
And I seem to recall some number-crunching board
with an i860 on it or
something.
By Sky Computing, maybe? I have a Sun 670MP with a couple of
coprocessors made by them. It's in storage and I don't have the
inventory handy, but IIRC each VME board had an i960 controller and 4
i860 coprocessors (or maybe vice versa), each with 4MB of cache. It's
effectively a huge FPU.
I'm pretty sure that in looking it up I found references to the same
sort of product for other platforms. 
16 Oct
16 Oct
3:11 a.m.
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:06:55 -0500, Doc Shipley wrote:
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> And I seem to recall some number-crunching board with an i860 on it or
> something.
... there were some Microway NumberSmasher boards containing one or more i860
processors, those were available both as ISA and EISA boards ...
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