Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:15:44 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Yann Ramin <atrus@matadore.montereyhigh.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IA64 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.990708101118.19553A-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.56.19990708010511.04150de0@localhost>
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On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:40 AM 7/8/99 +0300, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > >Ignoring the i860 (not really high-end, but certainly not a great > >success). > > The i860 was the first of a series of embedded (not high-end) processors. > It was quickly superceded by the i960, which was(and still is) successful. The fact the only remaining relative of the i860 is the i960 (and they are not close relatives, BTW) is exactly why I say it wasn't successful. The i860 was _not_ an embedded design. It was a general purpose RISC CPU that Intel never managed to sell in quatities, mainly for lack of software support, and because they couldn't move fast enough to keep up with competition (mostly Sparc). We still have around here a parallel machine based on some 128 or so such processors... Intel was _forced_ to concentrate on the i960, simply because it couldn't make any money selling the i860. > > --Brett > > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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