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In article <5024@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu) writes:
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>About the 80686 chip by Intel....
>
>The chip is a 128 bit chip with either 121 or 124 bits being used.
>It is a floating point chip and it has prebuilt 3D vector graphics
>capabilities.  It runs at only 33 MHz, but it is a RISC chip, it performs one
>instruction per clock cycle. ...

I do believe you are talking about the i860.  Intel stated at the i486
announcement that the i586 would be next, then the i686, i786, etc.  They 
wouldn't abandon this naming scheme so blithely.  
                                       (Unless you've got an i586 already?)


>Once more, as a query to more informed readers of the net, I thought I saw
>a 686 workstation made by MIPS, but I'm not sure, can someone verify this,

MIPS use an Intel processor?  Hmmm.  What's their stock at?  :-)


>The 686 seems be a good workstation for intensive graphics based applications.

The i860 is a beautiful beast for intensive graphics.  I've read stories in
the press of many companies being surprised at the performance of this chip,
and looking into using it.  Check out a back issue of "Microprocessor Report".
They did a whole look at the device, and performance.  It was sometime
in the summer I think.


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                                             on the way to Tahoe

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