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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r3
- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 06:03:50 GMT
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- >Simple wrong. microSPARC by Ti integrates ALL onto ONE dice. Period.
- >RTFM!
-
- Well, it integrates the CPU (IU+FPU+MMU+on-chip I&D caches), the memory
- controller, the SBus interface and, I think, the "8-bit peripheral"
- interface on one die. The other peripherals, such as the SCSI bus, the
- Ethernet interface, and the serial ports, are on two other chips.
-
- Dunno whether any 32-bit x86 chips exist that achieve a similar level of
- integration, although it's probably possible to create them, and some
- may be under development....
-