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Re: Help with 80432

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From: Jonathan Edwards
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 08:17
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surendar@maxine.wpi.edu (Surendar C.) writes:

>Hi,
>	I don't read this group often, so forgive me if this question
>is not appropriate here.

>One of friend was talking about this Intel 80432 chip, how it had 
>some form of ADA as its machine language and that it had good support 
>for multi-processors and such. However he said, that was in 1984. I
>tried to look for info on that and couldn't come up with anything.
>Does such a processor exist??? What happened to it??

I believe the project was cancelled due to the difficulty of getting
acceptable performance out of the machine...
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