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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: i860 questions
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Date: 2 Feb 90 21:29:20 GMT
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We're seriously looking at an i860-based iPSC machine, and with that
in mind:

1.  Is there (yet) a "real" i860 compiler for any of the following languages:
    C
    Fortran (/4, 77, 8x, whatever)
    Pascal?

    a. If a compiler exists, has anybody run some generic
    number-crunching code yet?  (ie: not hand-written i860 assembly, or
    other "pro-i860" benchmarking code.)

2.  What machines (besides the iPSC) have a(n) i860(s)?

3.  What machines can have an i860 via a plug-in compatibility board?

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J. Eric Townsend
University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics
jet@karazm.math.uh.edu
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