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- From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
- Subject: Re: Successor to i860?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.160258.14410@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <1992Jul24.051517.177756@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1992Jul24.153842.27205@uwm.edu> <MKAHN.92Jul30092618@hopi.sedona.intel.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:02:58 GMT
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- >markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
- >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.
-
- In article <MKAHN.92Jul30092618@hopi.sedona.intel.com> mkahn@hopi.sedona.intel.com (Mitch Kahn) writes:
- >Semantic police here: The 80960 is an *embedded microprocessor*.
- >Embedded controllers are typically used for electromechanical
- >control and/or have a slew of peripherals on board.
-
- They're called embedded controllers too, and in fact Intel refers to them as
- such, also: embedded processor, microcontroller, and microprocessor.
-
- Also, in current usage, the term refers to the core of any embedded
- microprocessr-based device, such as a disk drive, motor controler, laser
- printer, washing machine, transmission unit, network controller and so on.
-
- >The 80960 is a RISC processor (less the MMU which seems to denote full
- >microprocessor these days).
-
- Its main purpose is to be used in high-performance embedded controllers. That's
- why it (and the 186 and 376) don't have the MMU. That's also why it, and the
- 186 and 376, are detailed in the Embedded Controller Handbooks.
-