fre 2022-09-23 klockan 22:27 -0700 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk: > > I always thought the i960 was an upgrade to the i860 (sort of like > > i386 to i486 upgrade). However, based on the info on wiki it seems > > as if the i960 actually came first and although a RISC chip it was > > in no way in the same league as the i860. Anyone can clarify or > > verify this? > I'm not even sure I'd call them related. The i960 is a very > different, almost > "normal" RISC chip compared to the i860, though it uses Berkeley > register > windows like SPARC. It has excellent XOR performance, so it got used > a lot > later on in RAID arrays (my Apple Network Server 500 has a RAID card > with an > i960 on it). A few systems used it and it was popular in military > applications > but it never achieved its potential mostly due to internal politics > at Intel -- > not because it sucked -- and the DEC StrongARM settlement mostly put > a stake > through it. >
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