Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!bwong
From: bwong@sundc.UUCP (Brian Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Press Release: Intel announces 80960 architecture
Message-ID: <2739@sundc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 05:19:24 GMT
References: <3358@omepd> <953@ima.ISC.COM>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Vienna, VA
Lines: 10
Keywords: 80960, RISC, embedded control
Summary: Intel 432 and 80960 not at *ALL* the same!

In article <953@ima.ISC.COM>, marc@ima.ISC.COM (Marc Evans) writes:
> I remember a few years ago that Intel announced a processor called (I think)
> the 432...[ stuff deleted ] it seems to me that the 80960 is just
> a repackaged, supercharged version of the 432. Can anybody comment on this?
> pg 16), and the bus exchange unit M82965 @ $1750... YOW!

Yargh!  The Intel 432 was a (very) CISC machine, heavily microcoded, and 
intended to be essentially an "ada machine."  Given what we've read here
about the 80960, it's a RISC machine.  I doubt that the two chips have
almost anything in common!