🚀 go-pugleaf

guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
]
] >	MC : core + FPU + MMU, mil-spec
] >	XA : MC	+ object-oriented tagged architecture, mil-spec
]
] I.e., the BiiN machines all used mil-spec chips? :-)

The chips the BiiN machine used ( past tense ) are currently
only available as mil-spec parts.

] >Note that none of the commercial parts are the same die as 
] >any of the military parts : that would cost too much.
]
] I seem to remember Steve McGeady implying that, at least in some sense,
] the KA, KB, MC, and XA all used the same die, even though the dies on
] the mil-spec versions might be more rigorously tested.  The XA may have
] an extra pin or so for the tag bit.

This was true in the past. I'm pretty sure it is no longer true.

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Dennis O'Connor			doconnor@sedona.intel.com