Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 22:48:11 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IA64 Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990710224604.047b5e60@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199907090946.EAA07069@quark.ChrisBowman.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19990708092030.0466ca00@localhost> <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.990708172513.21435A-100000@csd> <4.2.0.56.19990708071909.03f9cda0@localhost>
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At 05:46 AM 7/9/99 -0400, Christopher R. Bowman wrote: >Um, Brett, I can't debate with you what you may have on handouts or heard at >presentations. However, in an odd coincidence I was just throwing out some old >Intel duplicates and marketing stuff I happen to have here, and what you >present above is diametrically opposed to the impression I get from that >material. The 1992 Intel Product Overview book (section 4) clearly tags that >i960s as targeted for embedded systems, but makes no such mention for the i860s >and in fact instead mentions engineering workstations, scientific computing, 3d >workstations and multi-user systems. In which the i860 would work as a COPROCESSOR. They kept on emphasizing that they wanted it to control, say, the screen or disk I/O. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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