[geeks] Microsoft Surface...

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Jun 5, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> I still think it's a terrible shame the i860 machine didn't make it to
> the marketplace.
>

It did, as an embedded CPU for single-task applications like laser 
printer rendering, etc.

ISTR that due to pipeline stalls or some other architectural issue, 
multi-tasking OSes could not get the full performance out of the CPU.

--Patrick