Re: Intel I860

J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:33:27 +0100

On 20011126 n0ano@indstorage.com wrote:
>Achim-
>
>Uh, what exactly do you think you have here? The I860 was a
>completely new architecture that Intel dropped over 5 years
>ago. I've got one running Unix SVR4 in my basement but you
>can't buy an I860 motherboard today.
>
>(For the record the 860 was a great architecture for the time
>and I'm still bitter that Intel dropped it but that's a different
>story.)
>

You are talking about intel i860 _processor_, and he asks about
I860 chipset.

BTW, I always desired to put my hands on an i860. It is the only real
good chip by Intel (it really looked like a Moto...). The only ones
I used were inside an HP Graphics accelerator on a 9000/385.

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