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- From: tmh@doppel.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Future of i860 line
- Message-ID: <TMH.92Aug26230950@doppel.first.gmd.de>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 21:09:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug23.020507.13375@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <BtLGIG.3q2@pgroup.com>
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- In-reply-to: lfm@pgroup.com's message of 26 Aug 92 14:06:15 GMT
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- In article <BtLGIG.3q2@pgroup.com> lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows) writes:
- 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.
- --
- Larry Meadows The Portland Group
- lfm@pgroup.com
-
- Why did it fail, though? While there might be better CPUs today, I
- thought it pretty good when it came out. Was there anything seriously
- wrong with it (except that it'd do virtual caching)? Was it just that
- the various vendors were too busy promoting their own designs or
- tuning their old architectures? Is it just bad luck that nobody
- decided to pick it up or is there something about the i860 that I
- missed?
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