Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!boulder!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: I860 & I960; When will be able to write winapps which use them? Message-ID: Date: 26 Oct 90 16:09:59 GMT References: <1990Oct26.052223.14642@eng.umd.edu> Sender: news@seri.gov (news) Distribution: na Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 40 burgoyne@eng.umd.edu (John R. Burgoyne) writes: >Not a 100% MS windows post, please tolerate. >Is anybody else out there interested in the I860 & I960? Does >anyone own and use one? Prices? Will they ever be mainstream on mid >to high end PCs? I hear that Dell uses the i960 for controlling their drive arrays for their new tower machines. >I can think of some incredible software which can be written for >windows on the PC using the I860 & I960. How about some ideas of >what people would like to do with windows and one of these babies? I'm probably getting in over my head here, but I was just talking to a coworker about what I'd like to see in a new high-end PC. What I'd like is an EISA based PC with a i486 and and i860. I want to run Windows on the i486 and Unix on the i860 concurrently with communications between the two. I want to be able to read news and be connected to Internet on the Unix side and run office productivity software under Windows on the DOS side. I would need to be able to move information from Unix to DOS and vice versa. The interface would need to be very smooth and fast. I don't know if this is practical or even possible, but it sure would make my job a lot easier. I'm one of those unfortunate people who has one foot in the Unix world and one in the PC world. When I'm on Unix, I miss all the nice office productivity stuff and when I'm on DOS, I miss the great connectivity I get with Unix. I want it all! -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@seri.gov Senior Computer Missionary VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future