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- From: mike@donut.endicott.ibm.com ()
- Subject: Re: Is there a i860 card for MCA???
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.155425.36056@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 15:54:25 GMT
- Reply-To: kincer@owgvm6.vnet.ibm.com
- References: <1993Jan25.014428.14612@odin.diku.dk>
- Organization: IBM FSC Owego
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- In article <1993Jan25.014428.14612@odin.diku.dk>, joker@diku.dk (Morten
- Christian Holmgreen) writes:
- |> The Subject pretty much says it all... I'm trying to find out, if
- |> there's a Intel i860 processor card for a model 95, that's possible
- |> to pay, since I'm running some neural-nets, that needs a little more
- |> floating point power than the i486 can deliver, even at 50 Mhz.
- |>
- |> I know, that IBM a couple of years back had a Wizard adapter, but that's
- |> taken off the program.
- |>
- Yes, IBM and Intel jointly developed the Wizard card and still might
- be available from Intel.
-
- |> I also want a C-compiler for the card, that runs under OS/2 (2.0). I know,
- |> that MicroWay's got a i860 card, but only for (E)ISA busses, not MCA as
- |> far as I know!!!
- |>
- |> Thanks in advance...
- |>
- |> Christian
- |> (Still waiting for the Pentium... ;-)
- |> --
- |> M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
- |> M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
- |> "Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
-
- There is another i860 card available with up to four i860's on board.
- It is available by PRPQ from your local branch office. It does not
- run under OS/2 though, it runs under DOS or AIX (IBM's UNIX).
- The best compiler for i860 I've been told is from the Portland Group.
- If your branch office comes up dry, I can get you a contact.
- BTW, it is NOT cheap, so prohibitive for home use, but company use
- is not too bad (approx. $20-30K range).
-
- Mike __ __o / "Everythin's IMHO,
- Kincer@owgvm6.vnet.ibm.com __ \<, / and nobody else's!"
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