sullivan@msor.exeter.ac.uk (Rob Sullivan) (07/05/89)
Does anyone have any up to date information about the new Intel i860
chip as our department is thinking of investing in a parallel machine based
around 4 such processors. We also need 16MB of fast memory on each chip so
that they may be used separately to run our code which involves very large
matrix manipulation......is this configuration possible now and if not when
can we expect to see such items in the U.K.
Thanks in advance,
Rob...mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) (07/09/89)
>Does anyone have any up to date information about the new Intel i860 >chip as our department is thinking of investing in a parallel machine based >around 4 such processors. We also need 16MB of fast memory on each chip so >that they may be used separately to run our code which involves very large >matrix manipulation......is this configuration possible now and if not when >can we expect to see such items in the U.K. The i860 is still in a very early sampling stage, and the only chips that have been distributed are quite buggy. Intel officially will only say that they are on schedule for general sampling in the third quarter. I've been told that first silicon on the "B" step, which is hoped to fix the bugs, came off the line last week, and I haven't been able to find out how it is working. If you're looking for a system in the next 6 months or so, I wouldn't consider the i860. I'd expect it to be a year before systems are shipping with reasonable software and short bug lists. Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report mslater@cup.portal.com 550 California Ave., Suite 320, Palo Alto, CA 94306 415/494-2677 fax: 415/494-3718
jsb@ssf.uucp (John Barr) (09/12/89)
Given the amount of interest being generated by the i860 I have been surprised at the lack of comment on USENET. Am I looking in the wrong place? I would be interested to hear what people are doing (or planning to do) with i860s (hardware and software), as well as general comments on what you think it is good at / bad at / etc. Please mail reponses to me and I will post a message summarizing responses if anything interesting comes through. Thanks John -- John Barr System Software Factors Ltd Email: jsb@ssf.co.uk Chiltern Chambers, St Peters Avenue Phone: +44 (0)734 476644 Caversham, Reading, England FAX: +44 (0)734 461137 RG4 7DH
zhe@snow-gate.ece.syr.edu (Zhe Li) (01/05/90)
Hi! I need some help. I am working on Intel i860 processor. Could you give me information about programming tools for i860 (e.g. gcc compiler for i860)? Could you tell me some people who can give me more help ? Thanks.
ken@metaware.metaware.com (ken) (01/08/90)
In article <2186@cmx.npac.syr.edu> zhe@snow-gate.ece.syr.edu (Zhe Li) writes:
->I am working on Intel i860 processor.
->Could you give me information about programming tools for i860
MetaWare of Santa Cruz, CA has a nice compiler and linker for the i860...
-Ken
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Kenrob@violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson) (01/09/90)
last i heard rms was hired by intel to do the port. the i860 is their risc chip, non? rob -- william robertson rob@violet.berkeley.edu indecision is the key to flexiblity