[rescue] Sun 711

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Chris Byrne wrote:

> 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.

That is the i960. The i860 is a totally different family and it is not
very "emeddeable" really. the i860 production stopped long ago, the i960
might still be on production but I think intel was moving towards ARM for
embedded.
 
> It's also used in some digital audio equipment and other DSP gear, and
> bunches of other stuff.

In older equipment perhaps the i860 as a DSP stopped making sense almost a
decade ago.
 
> Chris Byrne
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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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