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Article #11500Re: Anything wrong with the i860
From: Donald Lindsay
Date: Sun, 12 May 1991 02:39
Date: Sun, 12 May 1991 02:39
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In article <1991May7.145407.18417@midway.uchicago.edu> rtp1@quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes: >I have seen relatively little about the i860 chip on this newsgroup. >Alliant uses it in their shared-memory >machines (800 & 2800),... >Is there something wrong with the architecture? Long ago, Intel announced that it would be getting its 860 compilers from Alliant. They obviously thought (as did I) that Alliant was pretty good. That product is now about a year overdue. Unfortunately, the pessimists seem to have been on the mark. -- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!gandalf.cs.cmu.edu!lindsay From: lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Anything wrong with the i860 Message-ID: <13008@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 12 May 91 02:39:30 GMT References: <1991May7.145407.18417@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 15