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- From: hsu@pix.com (Dagwood Splits the Atom)
- Subject: Re: Successor to i860XP???
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- References: <1992Aug15.012125.176101@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 03:48:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.012125.176101@zeus.calpoly.edu> mneideng@wocket.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark Neidengard) writes:
- >Hmmm....I asked a question a while ago to which I never got a specific
- >answer. I am wondering if there is any planned upgrading either in clock
- >speed or capabilities to the i860-XP 50 RISC microprocessor. It seems like
- >the other companies are starting to catch up, so does Intel have a rebuttal?
-
- Maybe you missed it, but Intel derailed the i860 line-of-succession
- this past winter. It is probably not _entirely_ coincidental that Oki
- Electric pulled the plug on its workstation division shortly thereafter,
- resulting in an abrupt collapse of Mass860 consortium.
-
- All is not lost, though. The 860's floating point unit is widely rumored
- to have been adapted for the P5 (egads...an x86 with enough guts to do
- some serious DSP!).
-
- What I'm curious about is what the P24T's FPU will be derived from. Any
- takers?
-
- -dave
-
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