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From: brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: IBM's XGA and Windows
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Date: 31 Jan 91 11:05:41 GMT
References: <859@nih-csl.nih.gov> <1991Jan24.132327.8830@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1991Jan28.100703.4680@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Jan30.045751.3520@disk.uucp> <91030.234048U39648@uicvm.uic.edu>
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In article <91030.234048U39648@uicvm.uic.edu> U39648@uicvm.uic.edu (Darius Vaskelis) writes:
>Microchannel architecture is not "linked" to Intel's iAPX86 processor
>family in any way.  Neither is the concept of bus-mastering.  Note the IBM
>RS/6000 workstations, they use the i860 RISC chip for the CPU, and almost
>every Microchannel adapter designed for it it a full bus-master.
>
Although it is true that the S/6000 supports the Microchannel, it is not true
that it uses the i860. Actually, it uses a chipset which is proprietary to
IBM, and I have to say that it is much better than the i860.


Marc-Michael Brandis
Computer Systems Laboratory, ETH-Zentrum (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
email: brandis@inf.ethz.ch