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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: i860/i960 swaping?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.202827.152@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:28:27 GMT
- Article-I.D.: crd.1992Aug19.202827.152
- References: <1992Aug18.165919.1@sscvx1.ssc.gov>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- In article <1992Aug18.165919.1@sscvx1.ssc.gov>, schludermann@sscvx1.ssc.gov writes:
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- | I'm considering buying a computer from hauppauge computer works that has
- | the i860 and 486 cpu's. The question is, can the 860 be upgraded to the 960
- | at a later date?
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- Except for the pinout and the instruction set set they're compatible.
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- In other words it won't work. And I highly question the idea that the
- 960 is an upgrade. It's a totally different animal, and I don't think
- it's reasonable to compare.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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