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From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: 960mx
Message-ID: <43810@cup.portal.com>
Date: 29 Jun 91 17:27:20 GMT
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>Has anyone heard of this recently announced part? Intel Literature
>didn't know anything about it last time I called. Thanks.

The 960MX is designed for military applications, and is available only in
a mil-spec version at over $1500 each.  It is a much-enhanced derivative of
the 960CA, with on-chip FPU and MMU, a 64-bit "backside" bus for private 
memory or a second-level cache, and support for the "extended architecture"
object-based protection scheme that originated with the BiiN work.

Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report   mslater@cup.portal.com