From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 27 8:49:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jumping-spider.aracnet.com (jumping-spider.aracnet.com [205.159.88.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B84F1530C; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:49:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beattie@aracnet.com) Received: from shell2.aracnet.com (IDENT:1728@shell2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.20]) by jumping-spider.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA27516; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:48:02 -0700 Received: from localhost by shell2.aracnet.com (8.8.7) id IAA02102; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:48:03 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: shell2.aracnet.com: beattie owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:48:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie To: David Wolfskill Cc: kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu, rivers@dignus.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? In-Reply-To: <199908271525.IAA19196@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:20:16 -0400 (EDT) > >From: Kenny Drobnack > > >> 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