[rescue] Compaq Proliant 8000

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 11:53:14AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 05:34:06PM +0200, Gerhard Lenerz wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >   Here we go:
> >   - a large Siemens 486 Tower (more or less backplane based)
> >   - a Hauppauge 4860 system (80486DX/33 with i860/33 coprocessor)
> 
> How do you program the i860?  Sounds yummy.
> 
> The i860 was one of Intel's attempts to get away from x86, but it
> failed.

Yeah, from the specs I saw at the time when they were promising
i860-based PCs, it's a really nice processor.  It should have been able
to kick 80486 ass all over the barnyard.


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