[rescue] Sun 711

[Scott Newell]

>> 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.

Didn't the i860 have some really severe problems with interrupt context
switching due to the pipelines?


>That is the i960. The i860 is a totally different family and it is not

Never used one...is it a fairly clean RISC chip, or what?  MMU?  FPU?


newell