Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!att!pacbell.com!pacbell!rtech!mtxinu!taniwha!paul From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Anything wrong with the i860 Message-ID: <846@taniwha.UUCP> Date: 9 May 91 16:40:54 GMT References: <1991May7.145407.18417@midway.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland Lines: 21 In article yoshio@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Yoshio Turner) writes: >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. Oh great !-( - I can just see it - the engineers put a 128 bit bus on the thing to get the system performance up and the Intel marketting people blaze out with "Intel releases the first 128 bit micro" (remember you saw it here first :-) Paul -- Paul Campbell UUCP: ..!mtxinu!taniwha!paul AppleLink: CAMPBELL.P My son is now 2 months old, in that time he has doubled his weight, if he does this every 2 months for the next year he will weigh over 300lbs.