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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!labtam!graeme
- From: graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Graeme Gill)
- Subject: Re: 960 XA/MX Questions
- Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:01:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.020124.16665@labtam.labtam.oz.au>
- References: <1993Jan6.023733.5129@netcom.com> <16289@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- In article <16289@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- > >> Marketoon(tm) reasons to be exact. There is very little demand
- > >> for products with the capabilities of the MX/XA outside of the
- > >> military.
- > >
- > > From this I gather that graphics (ie. Xterminals) and multi-media
- > >do not amount to much demand.
- >
- > I wasn't aware that Labtam was using XA/MX chips in their X terminals; I
- > thought they used the core-architecture or maybe numeric-architecture
- > versions....
-
- I never said we were. What I am pointing out is that these sorts of
- products are rapidly moving into area where memory management and floating
- point are essential. As far as I know (and I would love to be proved wrong
- here), Intel is not offering any commercial 960 products with these features.
- Their competitors are. They do have a 960 design with these features
- (the MM/MX?), but show no signs of turning it into a commercial product.
-
- > (Or, to put it another way, I suspect you misread what Mr. Kahn said; he
- > didn't say there was little demand for 960's outside the military, he said
- > there was little demand "for products with the capabilities of the
- > MX/XA", presumably meaning "little demand for products with all the
- > capability-based segmented-address-space stuff", outside the military.)
-
- No, I did not mis-read the article. What I am pointing out is
- that there is some demand for MM type features in commercial products.
- As far as I know the MM doesn't have any peculiar capability-based
- segmented-address-space stuff. I am not clear on the difference between
- and MX and and MM since I have never seen a detailed data sheet on it.
- The impression I got was that the MX was almost identical to the MM,
- but with a different bus interface.
-
- Graeme Gill.
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