Re: 960 XA/MX Questions

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 03:49

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>Using a 960 xa/mx to run a graphics terminal would be a waste. These
>chips have the capability to run major-league object oriented
>operating systems mostly in hardware.

Really?  The impression I got from the COMPCON 90 paper on BiiN/OS was
that it included rather a lot of software, and that only low-level stuff
was done by the chip's hardware or by (so-called-micro-)code on the
chip.

It did *more* in hardware and on-chip firmware than most systems, but I
get the impression that it did *less* on-chip, and left more up to
software, than the 432 did, for example.

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