Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:48:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu, rivers@dignus.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908270836370.26298-100000@shell2.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <199908271525.IAA19196@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:20:16 -0400 (EDT) > >From: Kenny Drobnack <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu> > > >> And - let me add - Intel has been down this path before > >> (the i860) - and didn't see the success it wanted (although > >> the i860 is popping up in some interesting places now...) > > > Um, which chip was this? I don't remember hearing about it. > > It's a processor that tends to be used in embedded systems, such as > (PostScript-capable) printers, if I recall correctly. > The i960 is the processor that is used in embedded systems. The i860 was intended as a general purpose CPU and had very good (for it's time) floating point. The i960 was designed as an embeded CPU. The ia32 line will outperform (by quite a bit) the ia64 line until, at least the introduction of Mckinley(sp?), which is the second ia64 chip. This will not be until 02 I think, coudl be 03. The ia32 line still has a number of years of life left in it in the desktop and server market. Only people who really need a 64bit address space, and those who want the latest cool thing will buy Merced based systems. But then I'm still running a 486 and a couple of sub 200MHz Cyrix based systems :) Brian Beattie | The only problem with beattie@aracnet.com | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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