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To: tcmay who wrote (136319)	5/30/2001 10:41:49 AM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (1) of 186894

>Interestingly, the 29K's main competitor was the 960, written about here by one of the Intel folks who worked on it. It ended up as a microcontroller, albeit a powerful one, but it started out as part of the 8800/432/Gemini/Biin product series. One of the design variants even use tag bits, like the LISP machines of the day.< I was unaware of the i960 being targeted at any market other than the microcontroller market. When I worked at YARC, the Intel reps attempting to get us to design coprocessor boards using the i860 and the i960 always presented the i860 as a general purpose processor for our scientific and visualization markets, while presenting the i960 as an embedded processor, primarily for our laser printer market. It is interesting to note that, while we used no cache for our 29K market, Intel reps accused us of cheating by running it at less than zero wait states, thus making it appear to be faster than it really was.

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