On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:24:42PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > The other is a 3-issue VLIW follow-up to the 2-issue
> > VLIW i860.
> Oh, I didn't know that processor was used for more than printers, raid
> controllers, and similar.
The 860 is a great processor, and was very fast compared to the
competition when introduced. Someone, Tektronics IIRC, built a really nice
little workstation based on that chip and SysV UNIX. Had the use of one
for a while, and it sure would do floating point!
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