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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari cpu evolution
Keywords: Intel i860
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.182931.29069@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 4 Apr 91 18:29:31 GMT
References: <2318@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <2318@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> plinio@turing.seas.ucla.edu (Plinio Barbeito) writes:
>...
>Sounds great, but it is just that -- a promise.  Has intel ever made 
>good on the promise that its i860 would run at 50MHz so that the 150 
>max MIPS figure hyped by the press could come to light?...
The 150 MIPS figure is the speed it's guaranteed not to exceed :-)

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