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- From: schow@bqneh23.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
- Subject: Re: iAPX432 ??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.134125.7927@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
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- References: <b0qnybk.tcmay@netcom.com> <1992Sep8.200523.19955@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:41:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.200523.19955@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >In article <b0qnybk.tcmay@netcom.com>, tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes:
- >
- >| 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.
- >
- > 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.
-
- Strange but true!.
-
- If you look below the surface, many aspects of the 960 (especially
- the Biin portions) were indeed very similar to the 432 in spirit. One
- might say that the 960/Biin is a RISC version of the 432. I came to
- conclusion before I knew that some of the 432 team were on the 960
- team.
-
- > 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.
-
- I too think of it as a great experiment, much like the IBM Stretch; and
- as Timothy pointed out, Intel got a lot of technology from it.
-
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