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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Press Release: Intel announces 80960 architecture
Message-ID: <49681@sun.uucp>
Date: 15 Apr 88 18:42:11 GMT
References: <3358@omepd> <953@ima.ISC.COM> <3376@omepd>
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Keywords: 80960, RISC, embedded control

> >I remember a few years ago that Intel announced a processor called (I think)
> >the 432...Now that I have read about this processor (80960) in some of the
> >industry rags, as well as on the net, it seems to me that the 80960 is just
> >a repackaged, supercharged version of the 432. Can anybody comment on this?

Could the reason that the industry rags were under this delusion be that some
of the people involved in the 432 were also involved in the '960 (Myers and
Konrad Lai come to mind), and therefore (in typical ignorant industry-rag
reporter fashion) assumed that one was derived from the other?