Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.hardware:4325 comp.sys.amiga:70548 comp.sys.amiga.tech:15601 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!unixhub!shelby!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Multi-processor i860 board Message-ID: <15490@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 31 Oct 90 17:05:15 GMT References: <1990Oct22.152917.26941@engin.umich.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 21 In article joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes: >NO! We don't want an Intel chip in our Ami's! I'd rather have an MC88000, >since any Motorola chip can easily trash it's Intel equivelent. Don't knock the i860 -- it's a completely different thing than the 80x86 line of CPUs. While it's a general purpose CPU, it's designed for extremely fast math processing. Especially thanks to a real 64 bit wide data bus, it'll leave the 88k in the dust banging on floating point numbers. Then again, you can buy a couple of complete 88k chipsets for the price of a single i860, which would do you a heck of alot more good if you're interested in more general purpose computing. While not an exact matchup, the Motorola 96002 DSP is more comparable to the i860 in terms of floating point performance. However, they are different critters; you can, for example, get UNIX for the i860, but not for a DSP like the MC96002. >-Joseph Hillenburg -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold -REM