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From: Tim Olson
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 00:27

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In article <890914093059.00000D311B1@prlvax1.prl.philips.co.uk> EDMONDS@prlvax1.prl.philips.co.uk (Mark from Philips) writes:
| The i960 - what's that?  
| 
| How can Intel be bringing out something to supercede the i860 when the i860
| has hardly even started (or are things different in the States)?  That's not
| like Intel (!!), or have I got the wrong end of the stick. 

No, the i960 is not a successor to the i860.  The i960(KA,KB,MC) was
announced and available about 1.5 years ago; the new announcement is
for the i960CA, a code-compatible superscalar version.  The i960 got
its name from the 8096, an embedded controller.

	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@amd.com)

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