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- From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
- Subject: Re: Successor to i860?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.153842.27205@uwm.edu>
- Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <1992Jul24.051517.177756@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:38:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.051517.177756@zeus.calpoly.edu> mneideng@thidwick.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark Neidengard) writes:
- >This goes out to all the people in the know at or around Intel: Does Intel
- >have any plans to further improve the i860, or to produce future generations
- >of the design? Or does it have some other RISC chip simmering on the back
- >burner besides the Px (x86) line?
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- The entire embedded controller series: 8051/8096/80960. The last two are
- highly orthogonalized and have plenty of RISC design features in them, the
- first had many RISC features designed in it before RISC was even a word.
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