Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:59:49 -0700 From: Tamiji Homma <thomma@baynetworks.com> To: Michael.Elbel@consol.de Cc: ni@tellique.de, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, garyj@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: i860 based computer (was Re: IA64) Message-ID: <19990716095949C.thomma@baynetworks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:28:52 %2B0200" <19990716132849.A36231@consol.de> References: <19990716132849.A36231@consol.de>
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> In lists.freebsd.chat you write: > > >Michael Elbel wrote on freebsd-chat: > > >> Well, all I can say is that in a former life at a former company we > >> were indeed building workstations with i860 processors and only > >> those. Intel *themselves* supplied a SYSVR4 port to the i860 that we > >> used as the base of our own version. > > > I hope I am not giving you away when I mention that this must have been > > the Cadmus Firebox, the only general-purpose machine based on the i860 I > > have ever heard about. Hmmm.... Stratus Computer used to sell i860 SVR4 system. We had to use the expensive system just because of so-called fault tolerance. Hardware was robust but not OS ;-( When OS goes down, all goes down. Since nobody mentioned it, it must be pretty minor. I was really tired of lack of kernel debugging support specially dealing with STREAMS, which I was porting TP4/CLNP to run X.400/X.500 on the machine. I was so happy with FreeBSD 2.0-ALPHA to build the test system X.500/X.400 against Stratus i860. My 486/66 FreeBSD 2.0-ALPHA always beated the quarter million dollar Stratus computer except floating point number crunching, which is never used in the system that I worked on... I also remembered that OKI Electronics used to have i860 based workstation. But it disappeares so fast. I don't even remember the name. I'm maybe wrong about it. Tammy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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