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From: J.C.Highfield@lut.ac.uk
Subject: Re: NetBSD for i80960?
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:52:47 GMT
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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