[rescue] Re: [geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

[mike dombrowski]

>>> On another note, does anyone else find it terribly funny that 
Intel's
>>> old powerhouse CPU, the i860, is now used as a motherboard chip?  I 
just
>>> assumed that it was a case of name reuse, but I've been told 
otherwise.
>
>The new 82860 Rambus memory controller hub?  I kinda doubt it's got
>anything at all to do with the old 'Cray on a chip' i860 processor.

It's just a new chipset with same name, I too thought it was a "real" 
i860 but then did some reading. They're two different things, 
completely different.

Mike