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From: yoshio@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Yoshio Turner)
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Subject: Re: Anything wrong with the i860
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rtp1@quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes:
>Is there something wrong with the architecture?  As a platform,
>what are its advantages and disadvantages over the competition?

At the Touchstone special session at DMCC6, I recall one intel speaker
who said the floating point performance suffers from insufficient
memory bandwidth.  He also said an updated i860 will be announced in
"a couple months" that addresses this problem.

Yoshio