[Gllug] Small rant

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Sat Nov 12 19:19:18 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 10:15 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:

> 
> Perhaps you mean the i860, which was a seriously cool RISC chip for
> its time, but never particularly took off outside some specialised
> high performance / educational niches, and like the i432 had demanding
> compiler requirements which were rarely met.
I remember the i860, was used in the Thinking Machines line.
Never used one myself, but thy were as you say pushed as the Next Big
Thing in HPC.

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