Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!amdcad!dvorak.amd.com!cayman!pteich From: pteich@cayman.amd.com (Paul Teich) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Anything wrong with the i860 Keywords: hardware interlocks, automatic pipeline, flow-through pipeline Message-ID: <1991May15.152456.4246@dvorak.amd.com> Date: 15 May 91 15:24:56 GMT References: <1991May7.145407.18417@midway.uchicago.edu> <3486@charon.cwi.nl> Sender: usenet@dvorak.amd.com (Usenet News) Reply-To: pteich@cayman.amd.com (Paul Teich) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, TX Lines: 39 In article <3486@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: | In article <1991May7.145407.18417@midway.uchicago.edu> rtp1@quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes: | > Alliant uses it in their shared-memory machines (800 & 2800) | FPS and Stardent (will) use it as computational coprocessor (I think). The Anderson Report, April 1991 "Stardent has discontinued the Stardent 500 Stiletto workstation family. They had problems with the vector unit integration of the MIPS R3000 and Intel i860 processors. Stiletto customers are being offered the new 750 system as a replacement..." RISC Management, March 1991 "Stratus Computer, which is still using 68K processors while struggling to implement i860-based systems, ... The company did start delivery of FTX, its long-delayed UNIX SVR3 port last December; no word yet, however, on the i860-based systems." "Another company apparently having difficulty with the i860 is Stardent Computer. ... Stardent has been working on an i860-based replacement for the former Stellar product line, but, like Stratus, must be questioning whether to continue." "The remaining announced i860-based multiuser system vendor, Alliant Computer Systems, reported its third straight loss, $3 million." For those designing high-end graphics subsystems, remember, there is an alternative to the i860 - the Am29050. This is not an advertisement, so no flames...; call or email me for more information. I speak only for myself, etc. -- Paul R. Teich pteich@cayman.AMD.COM Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Direct 1-512-462-4268 5900 E. Ben White Blvd., MS 561 WATS 1-800-531-5202 x54268 Austin, Texas 78741 FAX 1-512-462-5051 =============================================================================== The mind of man, the soul, spirit or whatever, is infinite in its grasp; the universe may be only finite. At least there is no limit to what we've been able to imagine so far. -Jessie Greenstein, Radio Astronomer,_The_Astronomers_