Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!isis.cs.du.edu!jgriffit From: jgriffit@isis.cs.du.edu (Jonathan Griffitts) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Anything wrong with the i860 Message-ID: <1991May8.150558.10477@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: 8 May 91 15:05:58 GMT References: <1991May7.145407.18417@midway.uchicago.edu> <3487@charon.cwi.nl> Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Reply-To: jgriffit@isis.UUCP (Jonathan Griffitts) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix (sponsored by U. of Denver Math/CS dept.) Lines: 14 Disclaimer1: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Disclaimer2: Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither Disclaimer3: control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users. The i860 also has a reputation of being buggy, and apparently the bug list is hard to get. From what I understand (not first-hand information) some of the bugs have a significant adverse effect on performance. I presume that these bugs are being/may have been worked out. --JCG -- --JCG AnyWare Engineering, Boulder CO 303 442-0556