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From: lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Anything wrong with the i860
Message-ID: <13008@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 02:39:30 GMT
References: <1991May7.145407.18417@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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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.
>Alliant uses it in their shared-memory
>machines (800 & 2800),...
>Is there something wrong with the architecture?

Long ago, Intel announced that it would be getting its 860 compilers
from Alliant. They obviously thought (as did I) that Alliant was
pretty good.

That product is now about a year overdue. Unfortunately, the
pessimists seem to have been on the mark.
-- 
Don		D.C.Lindsay 	Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute