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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: iAPX432 ??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.200523.19955@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 20:05:23 GMT
- References: <Bu7A2J.B7B@lut.fi> <b0qnybk.tcmay@netcom.com>
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- In article <b0qnybk.tcmay@netcom.com>, tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes:
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- | The 432 project and team lived on in the "Gemini" project, which
- | became the Intel-Siemens jointly-owned "Biin Computer." The chips
- | developed had some of the 432 capabilities, but were more efficient
- | and didn't carry the same "everything is an object" penalty. The chips
- | are now sold by Intel as the "960" family.
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- The 432 was an object oriented, bit addressable, massively complex
- instruction set machine, and seeing any part of that become the 960 is
- certainly stranger than changing a caterpilar into a butterfly.
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- Thanks for the info on the 432, I wish I could get a chip, I have the
- manuals, and I believe that it was a great step forward in spite of the
- lack of commercial success.
-
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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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