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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.iii.net!iii2.iii.net!not-for-mail From: hdslip@iii2.iii.net (HD Associates) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD for i80960? Date: 5 Feb 1996 05:35:02 -0500 Organization: HD Associates, Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4f4mgm$gb3@iii2.iii.net> References: <4etd62$8qu@shell.fore.com> <4f3q7p$lad@cloud9.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: iii2.iii.net In article <4f3q7p$lad@cloud9.net>, Carl S. Shapiro <cs@cloud9.net> 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 Actually, rumour has it that the i960 was designed to be a general processor and the i860 a graphics and math accellerator. Somehow they got repositioned with the 960 as an embedded controller and the 860 the supercomputer engine. There were a few Unixes for the i860 - Alliant Concentrix (multi processor BSD) and a SYSVR4 reference from Intel. Oki and a German company sold small i860 boxes, and Intel made their MPP machine The right 960 can run unix. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267