Re: i860, was : Re: modern stuff

2018-10-30 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/30/18 4:22 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > So, I'm curious - what's the 'most important missing thing' at the > CHM full-time processing staff

Re: i860, was : Re: modern stuff

2018-10-30 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Al Kossow > CHM has a rather large Intel Paragon system. > I just recently snagged the software and manuals for it on eBay > which we didn't have Excellent! Congratulations! So, I'm curious - what's the 'most important missing thing' at the CHM - either am important machi

Re: i860, was : Re: modern stuff

2018-10-29 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 10/27/18 15:04, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: There was actually a nice PC Mainboard from Hauppauge, with an i486 & i860 on the same board ... Always wanted to have one of those, never found a used one. And it was running some king of Unix back then ... http://www.geekdot.com/hauppauge-

Re: i860, was : Re: modern stuff

2018-10-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
CHM has a rather large Intel Paragon system. I just recently snagged the software and manuals for it on eBay which we didn't have http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X1644.99 and others http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/?s=intel+paragon

i860, was : Re: modern stuff

2018-10-27 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2018-10-26 09:10, Gordon Henderson via cctalk wrote: > I worked for a company that made supercomputer boards out of the i860 at > one point - at the time (very early 90's) they were blindingly fast, > 40Mhz, 3 instructions per clock cycle which, since one was a floating > point multiply and add