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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Where's the i860? (was Re: 486SX - Intel now telling lies)
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.231525.19301@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991Jun2.030215.11584@unixland.natick.ma.us> <1991Jun2.041512.29546@leland.Stanford.EDU> <30379@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 91 23:15:25 GMT

In article <30379@hydra.gatech.EDU> hh2@prism.gatech.EDU (HAAS) writes:
>
>80 MFLOPS (FP multiply/accumulate in one clock cycle) SO . . . . .
>Where are the i860 based machines ?!? YEARS ago (it seems) when IBM

Isn't the i860 just a co-processor or numeric processor chip, not a
cpu chip?  I know CSPI has them on their array processors for Harris
Nighthawk (and other) computers.

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