Re: Anything wrong with the i860

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From: Paul Campbell
Date: Thu, 09 May 1991 16:40

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In article <yoshio.673633924@maui> yoshio@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Yoshio Turner) writes:
>At the Touchstone special session at DMCC6, I recall one intel speaker
>who said the floating point performance suffers from insufficient
>memory bandwidth.  He also said an updated i860 will be announced in
>"a couple months" that addresses this problem.


Oh great !-( - I can just see it - the engineers put a 128 bit bus on
the thing to get the system performance up and the Intel marketting
people blaze out with "Intel releases the first 128 bit micro"
(remember you saw it here first :-)


	Paul


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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
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Subject: Re: Anything wrong with the i860
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