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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Path: sparky!uunet!pgroup!lfm
- From: lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows)
- Subject: Re: Future of i860 line
- Message-ID: <BtLGIG.3q2@pgroup.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:06:15 GMT
- References: <1992Aug23.020507.13375@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Organization: The Portland Group, Portland, OR
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- In article <1992Aug23.020507.13375@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> panisset@lightning (Jean-Francois Panisset) writes:
- >From some of the messages posted around here recently, I gather that
- >Intel has announced that there will be no more development of the i860
- >line.
- Actually, the announcement was that Intel had admitted the failure of
- the i860 as a general-purpose CPU. They still intend to support it in
- graphics and embedded applications; speculation is that they will also
- support it for the iPSC MPP systems. No followon has been announced,
- but one would obviously be needed if they do indeed plan to continue to
- use i860-like chips in the iPSC.
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- Larry Meadows The Portland Group
- lfm@pgroup.com
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