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burgoyne@eng.umd.edu (John R. Burgoyne) writes:


>Not a 100% MS windows post, please tolerate.

>Is anybody else out there interested in the I860 & I960? Does
>anyone own and use one? Prices? Will they ever be mainstream on mid
>to high end PCs?

I hear that Dell uses the i960 for controlling their drive arrays for
their new tower machines.

>I can think of some incredible software which can be written for
>windows on the PC using the I860 & I960. How about some ideas of
>what people would like to do with windows and one of these babies?

I'm probably getting in over my head here, but I was just talking to a
coworker about what I'd like to see in a new high-end PC.

What I'd like is an EISA based PC with a i486 and and i860.  I want to
run Windows on the i486 and Unix on the i860 concurrently with
communications between the two.

I want to be able to read news and be connected to Internet on the Unix
side and run office productivity software under Windows on the DOS side.
I would need to be able to move information from Unix to DOS and vice
versa.  The interface would need to be very smooth and fast.

I don't know if this is practical or even possible, but it sure would
make my job a lot easier.

I'm one of those unfortunate people who has one foot in the Unix world
and one in the PC world.  When I'm on Unix, I miss all the nice office
productivity stuff and when I'm on DOS, I miss the great connectivity I
get with Unix.  I want it all!
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