🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <BtLGIG.3q2@pgroup.com> lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows) writes:
   In article <1992Aug23.020507.13375@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> panisset@lightning (Jean-Francois Panisset) writes:
   >From some of the messages posted around here recently, I gather that
   >Intel has announced that there will be no more development of the i860
   >line.
   Actually, the announcement was that Intel had admitted the failure of
   the i860 as a general-purpose CPU.  They still intend to support it in
   graphics and embedded applications; speculation is that they will also
   support it for the iPSC MPP systems.  No followon has been announced,
   but one would obviously be needed if they do indeed plan to continue to
   use i860-like chips in the iPSC.
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   Larry Meadows		The Portland Group
   lfm@pgroup.com

Why did it fail, though? While there might be better CPUs today, I
thought it pretty good when it came out. Was there anything seriously
wrong with it (except that it'd do virtual caching)? Was it just that
the various vendors were too busy promoting their own designs or
tuning their old architectures? Is it just bad luck that nobody
decided to pick it up or is there something about the i860 that I
missed?
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