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- From: wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe)
- Subject: Re: Future of i860 line
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 03:01:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.030115.25940@bilver.uucp>
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- In article <BtM3Mn.2BC@pgroup.com> lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows) writes:
- >
- >It is my personal opinion that Intel's failure to properly market and
- >position the i860 resulted in its lack of mainstream acceptance. Intel
- >started out marketing the i860 as the workstation chip, then switched
- >to the graphics chip, then to the supercomputing chip, even before
- >vendors such as OKI had shipped any non-beta workstations.
-
- Nope. Before it became a mainstream CPU it was meant to be marketed as
- a special support chip for the i486. The story I got was that when Intel
- went around and showed the i860 to it's biggest clients that those
- clients wanted the i860 marketed as a separate CPU. I had heard rumours
- for some time that a new chip was coming out that would take the place
- of the 82786 and compete against the TI34020. Whether the i860 was
- that chip, I suppose no one will ever know.
-
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