On 9/23/22 11:12, Gordon Henderson via cctalk wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2022, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: > >> Hi all, >> anybody has some GCC or any other tool chain for the above? >> Or some pointers, which was the last version of the GCC tool chain >> which supported the i860, and would be still compile-able on this days >> tools/OS's? >> >> Anything? > > I can't help with your quest, however I wish you both luck and the > energy to preserve your old grey cells when dealing with these beasts. > > Back in the day I did some work on the i860. Fascinating chip. Very > capable of doing high speed vector math and multiply + add in a single > cycle.
I believe (I'll have to check) that in the Osborne-McGraw-Hill/Intel i860 book there's a quote from BillG saying that Microsoft was committed to developing for the 860 as a personal computer CPU. I think that never happened...it would have been interesting, however. --Chuck
