[rescue] Sun 711

[Chris Byrne]

Nope, not confused here. The i860 is still in production for use in many
embedded systems, and is used in quite a few storage and I/O products.

It's also used in some digital audio equipment and other DSP gear, and
bunches of other stuff.

Chris Byrne

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> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Big Endian
> Sent: 02 May 2002 16:42
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [rescue] Sun 711
>
>
> >I think both of you have the i860 (predecessor to Itanic) confused with
> >i960 (dedicated I/O controller used on ~80% of raid cards out there).  If
> >not is the i860 really still in common use?
>
> The i860 is in common use for its tremendous floating point
> capabilities in aircraft systems I believe.
>
> daniel
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