On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:20:16 -0400 (EDT) > >From: Kenny Drobnack <[email protected]> > > >> 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 [email protected] | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
