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In article <1992Sep8.200523.19955@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>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.

Strange but true!.

If you look below the surface, many aspects of the 960 (especially
the Biin portions) were indeed very similar to the 432 in spirit. One
might say that the 960/Biin is a RISC version of the 432. I came to
conclusion before I knew that some of the 432 team were on the 960
team.

>  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.

I too think of it as a great experiment, much like the IBM Stretch; and
as Timothy pointed out, Intel got a lot of technology from it.


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