home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16 / NN_1992_16.iso / spool / comp / sys / intel / 1368 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1992-07-30  |  1.4 KB
  1. Path: sparky!uunet!iWarp.intel.com|inews!mkahn
  2. From: mkahn@hopi.sedona.intel.com (Mitch Kahn)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
  4. Subject: Re: Successor to i860?
  5. Message-ID: <MKAHN.92Jul30092618@hopi.sedona.intel.com>
  6. Date: 30 Jul 92 16:26:18 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul24.051517.177756@zeus.calpoly.edu>
  8.     <1992Jul24.153842.27205@uwm.edu>
  9. Sender: news@inews.intel.com
  10. Organization: /eng/eng3/mkahn/.organization
  11. Lines: 22
  12. In-reply-to: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu's message of 24 Jul 92 15:38:42 GMT
  13.  
  14. markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
  15.  
  16.  
  17. ] In article <1992Jul24.051517.177756@zeus.calpoly.edu> mneideng@thidwick.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark Neidengard) writes:
  18. ]
  19. ] The entire embedded controller series: 8051/8096/80960.  The last two are
  20. ] highly orthogonalized and have plenty of RISC design features in them, the
  21. ] first had many RISC features designed in it before RISC was even a word.
  22. ]
  23.  
  24. Semantic police here: The 80960 is an *embedded microprocessor*.
  25. Embedded controllers are typically used for electromechanical 
  26. control and/or have a slew of peripherals on board. The 80960 is
  27. a RISC processor (less the MMU which seems to denote full
  28. microprocessor these days).
  29.  
  30. IMHO of course.
  31.  
  32. --
  33. |  Mitch Kahn              | "I hope you know that this will go down on |
  34. |  mkahn@sedona.intel.com  |  your permanent record..."                 |
  35. *************************MY OWN OPINIONS*********************************
  36.