Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caesar.cs.montana.edu!ogccse!littlei!guardian!news From: news@guardian.UUCP (News Super User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: 80686 workstation Message-ID: <304@guardian.UUCP> Date: 27 Nov 89 19:30:37 GMT References: <5002@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <5024@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: peter@langlab1.hf.intel.com (Peter Plamondon) Organization: Intel Development Tools Operation, Hillsboro OR Lines: 42 In article <5024@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu) writes: | |About the 80686 chip by Intel.... | |A summer issue of Spectrum magazine (an IEEE publication) gave the details |about the 686 chip, but I'll summerize a bit the publication here. The 686 |and the 486 were similtaneous projects with the 686 staff being the more |prominent group while the 486 staff given the higher priority. | |Is there a catch to all of this? Yes, just one, the 686 chip is no longer |compatable with the older model chips, but then again, UNIX runs on anything. | |Once more, as a query to more informed readers of the net, I thought I saw |a 686 workstation made by MIPS, but I'm not sure, can someone verify this, |and/or tell me of workstations that you know contain the 686 chip? The 686 |seems be a good workstation for intensive graphics based applications. | |-- | |T. Tim Hsu UUCP ...pur-ee!ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu | ARPA ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu |FAX 1 317 494 0566 BITNET xajz@PURCCVM I got this posting again for about the third time, hopefully there's only some problem with Usenet causing this posting to reappear rather than the same person restating incorrect things ;-) As has been mentioned before, T. Tim Hsu has incorrectly identified the i860 as the "686". Do a global replace of "686" in his message with "i860" and it makes more sense. Intel has semi-announced the "80586" and "80686" to the extent that they will be compatible with the 80386 and 80486. That's all I know about the 586/686; I'm a language person, the chip designers don't talk to me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Plamondon, Intel Corp, 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124-6497 Internet: peter@langlab1.hf.intel.com +1 503-696-5219 UUNET : uunet!intelhf!langlab1!peter "I speak for myself, as best I can." UUCP : tektronix!psueea!foobar!langlab1.hf.intel.com!peter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------