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From: ken@mm.uucp (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: i960 ( was: Re: CISC Silent Spring )
Message-ID: <1990Feb10.232831.1271@mm.uucp>
Date: 10 Feb 90 23:28:31 GMT
References: <3300098@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1529@east.East.Sun.COM> <6107@orca.wv.tek.com>
Reply-To: ken@mm.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii)
Organization: MetaMedia, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <6107@orca.wv.tek.com> andrew@frip.wv.tek.com writes:
>
>How about the i960?  Object-oriented instructions with tags, and
>"silicon operating system" features, though you'd never know it from
>the externally released documentation.
>

Okay...I'll bite.  Explain this.

Also...now that Intels little Ada-machine fiasco is over, will we see
the `real' version of the i960 as a product?

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