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From: ian@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Ian Hogg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Where's the i860? (was Re: 486SX - Intel now telling lies)
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.164800.7448@rathe.cs.umn.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 16:48:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: rathe.1991Jun4.164800.7448
References: <1991Jun2.235352.22873@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1991Jun3.214105.490@digi.lonestar.org>
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In article <1991Jun3.214105.490@digi.lonestar.org> jgay@digi.lonestar.org (john gay) writes:
>From article <1991Jun2.235352.22873@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, by amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen):
>
>Actually, I think (from reading in EE Times) that these are all/most based
>on the i960.  My understanding (also from the EE Times article) is that
>intel has declared/stated/whatever that the i960 is for sale for embedded
>products (printers and whatever), the i860 is for co-processor applications
>(math and graphics), and the i486 is for general purpose cpu apps.  Intel
>is strongly discouraging the use of the i860 as a general purpose cpu
>because it will cut deeply into the cash cow of i[34]86 chips.
>
  What chips are being used in their HyperCube computer?  It was the 386 but
  not anymore.
>
>-- 
>
>john gay.
>jgay@digi.lonestar.org


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