Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 04:04:09 CDT 2016


On 19 April 2016 at 20:58, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 12 i860s to run the graphics! How absurd!
>
> Those processors showed up in the weirdest places.  I remember seeing them
> on DEC SCSI controllers quite a bit, too.

Intel's effort at RISC. Didn't go so well for them, but did inspire
the name of Windows NT and was the original host platform for the
then-new OS.


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