Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!ncsuvx!news From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Intel graphics chip Keywords: Intel, 586, windows Message-ID: <1990Dec19.201607.736@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 19 Dec 90 20:16:07 GMT References: <3042@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <450@lysator.liu.se> <1990Dec18.213506.645@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <1990Dec19.052844.4083@kithrup.COM> <1990Dec19.115110.15070@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <3070@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 19 >> I had figured the chip had never come out, but then I saw an ad for a >> terminal using it, a few weeks ago. >> > I thought the chip was dead, too. > Can someone shed light on this? Was the chip cancelled and then > reinstated, or what? Bill - I can't seem to find that terminal ad, but I did just run across this quote from Computer Graphics Review, Oct '89: "The Intel 82786 is positioned as a companion to Intel's 80286 and 80386 processors and accompanying numeric processors. Used by such graphics board vendors as Western Digital Imaging, Bell Technologies, Vermont Microsystems and Number Nine (the latter of which uses both the 82786 and 34010 on a single board), it is the second best-selling graphics coprocessor." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (At the time, of course) But this means it (was) really out there. I admit to being astonished, too! best - kevin