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From: hays@iSC.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Anything wrong with the i860
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Date: 7 May 91 18:04:53 GMT
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In article <1991May7.145407.18417@midway.uchicago.edu>, rtp1@quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes:
|> I have seen relatively little about the i860 chip on this newsgroup.
|> Also, compared to MIPS, it doesn't seem to be very popular as the
|> base processor for computers;  Alliant uses it in their shared-memory
|> machines (800 & 2800), Intel has the Touchstone experimental mpp machine,

Just to set the record straight, we do sell the iPSC/860, which contains up to
128 i860 processors, connected as a hypercube.  The Touchstone Delta Field
Prototype (the "mpp machine" referenced above, aka "DFP") was recently available
for inspection by the attendees of DMCC6 in Portland, OR.  Over 500 i860
processors, connected as a mesh, with a peak performance of 30 GFLOPS.

|> and the i860 seems popular as a graphics coprocessor (e.g. in the NeXt),
|> but generally, I see surprisingly little interest in the chip.
|> 

No comment.

Obviously, I do not speak for Intel, being but a lowly engineer.
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