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From: carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Anything wrong with the i860
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Date: 17 May 91 17:17:50 GMT
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In article <13008@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>
>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.

	Intel has also OEMed i860 compilers from Green Hills and the Portland
Group, and struck an (unannounced) deal with Multiflow for compiler
technology at about the same time they announced the Alliant deal.

	I think that Alliant's failure to produce its compiler on schedule
likely says more about Alliant than it does about the i860.



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Jeff Carroll
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