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In article <16289@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> >> Marketoon(tm) reasons to be exact. There is very little demand
> >> for products with the capabilities of the MX/XA outside of the
> >> military. 
> >
> >	From this I gather that graphics (ie. Xterminals) and multi-media
> >do not amount to much demand.
> 
> I wasn't aware that Labtam was using XA/MX chips in their X terminals; I
> thought they used the core-architecture or maybe numeric-architecture
> versions....

	I never said we were. What I am pointing out is that these sorts of
products are rapidly moving into area where memory management and floating
point are essential. As far as I know (and I would love to be proved wrong
here), Intel is not offering any commercial 960 products with these features.
Their competitors are. They do have a 960 design with these features
(the MM/MX?), but show no signs of turning it into a commercial product. 

> (Or, to put it another way, I suspect you misread what Mr. Kahn said; he
> didn't say there was little demand for 960's outside the military, he said
> there was little demand "for products with the capabilities of the
> MX/XA", presumably meaning "little demand for products with all the
> capability-based segmented-address-space stuff", outside the military.)

	No, I did not mis-read the article. What I am pointing out is
that there is some demand for MM type features in commercial products.
As far as I know the MM doesn't have any peculiar capability-based
segmented-address-space stuff. I am not clear on the difference between
and MX and and MM since I have never seen a detailed data sheet on it.
The impression I got was that the MX was almost identical to the MM,
but with a different bus interface.

	Graeme Gill.