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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.indy.net!usenet From: ziggy@village.instaview.com (Ziggy Stardust) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD for i80960? Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 20:25:18 GMT Organization: IndyNet - Indys Internet Gateway (info@indy.net) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4fanij$jiu@news.indy.net> References: <DMB840.FDB@lut.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip71-41.slip.indy.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 J.C.Highfield@lut.ac.uk wrote: >cs@cloud9.net (Carl S. Shapiro) wrote: >>Russ Hoffman (reh@fore.com) wrote: >>: Subject line says it all. Is there a port of NetBSD for the i960? >> >> Wasn't the i960 designed to be an intergrated controller type of >>chip? The only intel RISC microprocessor I ever saw running UNIX was some >>odd version of the i860, either the i860XP or i860XR (or maybe even some >>other version, I don't know too much about the i860 family) running OSF/1 >>on a Paragon. >I think Intel had bigger plans for the i960 once - they were going to >use it at the centre of soem multiprocessor machine made by Biin (a joint >venture? of theirs which never made it very far). >IIRC, there were only the two i860 variants you mentioned. >Regards, > Julian I saw a lot of them in the bigger HP printers.....pretty sad, better cpu in my printer than my desktop :) Ziggy