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 t
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 21:50 Ali via cctalk wrote:
> 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 i8
> 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
> On Sep 23, 2022, at 11:50 PM, Ali via cctalk wrote:
>
> 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
> leag
On Sat, 24 Sept 2022 at 05:50, Ali via cctalk wrote:
>
> 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
> 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 ev
