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Article #108Re: Question about the i860 processor
From: Josh Osborne
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 15:08
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 15:08
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In article <1992Oct30.183211.18602@news.uiowa.edu> mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins) writes:
[...]
>To give you an idea of what DEC thinks of the i860, you can find them in
>certain DECStations. Yep, right there on the graphics board.
In all fairness to the i860, Intel discurages people from using it is
a "workstation CPU". I have used an i860 baised workstation and it
was faster then anything I had used at the time (incl the DS5000),
note on paper it was slower then HP's snakes, and I have never used
HP's snakes.
[...]
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!mojo.eng.umd.edu!pandora.pix.com!stripes From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne) Subject: Re: Question about the i860 processor Message-ID: <BwzrEn.KB7@pix.com> Keywords: i860 Sender: news@pix.com (The News Subsystem) Nntp-Posting-Host: pandora.pix.com Organization: Pix Technologies -- The company with no adult supervision References: <5n7pqwd@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Oct30.183211.18602@news.uiowa.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 15:08:45 GMT Lines: 18