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In article <BtM3Mn.2BC@pgroup.com> lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows) writes:
>
>It is my personal opinion that Intel's failure to properly market and
>position the i860 resulted in its lack of mainstream acceptance.  Intel
>started out marketing the i860 as the workstation chip, then switched
>to the graphics chip, then to the supercomputing chip, even before
>vendors such as OKI had shipped any non-beta workstations.

Nope. Before it became a mainstream CPU it was meant to be marketed as
a special support chip for the i486. The story I got was that when Intel
went around and showed the i860 to it's biggest clients that those
clients wanted the i860 marketed as a separate CPU. I had heard rumours
for some time that a new chip was coming out that would take the place
of the 82786 and compete against the TI34020. Whether the i860 was
that chip, I suppose no one will ever know.

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