[rescue] Apple WWDC Summary, Cube Computers

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Tue Jun 24 16:22:42 CDT 2003


On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:03:02PM -0500, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> The i860 is probably going to be the easiest of that generations chips
> to still use, but even so...

Wasn't Intel talking up a planned i860-based PC at one point, as the
successor to the 486?  I remember reading about it at the time,
comparing the specs on the CPUs, and realizing that the i860 would
have the potential to totally blow the 486 and the 68000 out of the
water.


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