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In article <1992Aug15.012125.176101@zeus.calpoly.edu> mneideng@wocket.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark Neidengard) writes:
>Hmmm....I asked a question a while ago to which I never got a specific
>answer.  I am wondering if there is any planned upgrading either in clock
>speed or capabilities to the i860-XP 50 RISC microprocessor.  It seems like
>the other companies are starting to catch up, so does Intel have a rebuttal?

Maybe you missed it, but Intel derailed the i860 line-of-succession
this past winter.  It is probably not _entirely_ coincidental that Oki
Electric pulled the plug on its workstation division shortly thereafter,
resulting in an abrupt collapse of Mass860 consortium.

All is not lost, though.  The 860's floating point unit is widely rumored
to have been adapted for the P5 (egads...an x86 with enough guts to do
some serious DSP!).

What I'm curious about is what the P24T's FPU will be derived from.  Any
takers?

-dave

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