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Article #587Re: iAPX432 ??
From: william E Davidsen
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 20:05
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 20:05
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In article <b0qnybk.tcmay@netcom.com>, tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes:
| The 432 project and team lived on in the "Gemini" project, which
| became the Intel-Siemens jointly-owned "Biin Computer." The chips
| developed had some of the 432 capabilities, but were more efficient
| and didn't carry the same "everything is an object" penalty. The chips
| are now sold by Intel as the "960" family.
The 432 was an object oriented, bit addressable, massively complex
instruction set machine, and seeing any part of that become the 960 is
certainly stranger than changing a caterpilar into a butterfly.
Thanks for the info on the 432, I wish I could get a chip, I have the
manuals, and I believe that it was a great step forward in spite of the
lack of commercial success.
--
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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