timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler) (10/10/90)
This was supposed to be a follow-up to Re: Upgrading MicroChannel, but my news system wouldn't let me (something about including more text than adding text). Anyway, someone mentioned this i860 thing that only work under OS/2 so far. Can anyone give me any details about it, like cost, for which PS/2's, what it does, how much power it adds, etc etc? Thanx!!!
hh2@prism.gatech.EDU (HAAS) (10/11/90)
In article <2218@sparko.gwu.edu> timur@seas.gwu.edu () writes: > > . . . . . . . this i860 thing that only work under OS/2 so far. >Can anyone give me any details about it, like cost, for which PS/2's, >what it does, how much power it adds, etc etc? Thanx!!! Below is a description of the Wizard board. I don't remeber the MIPs of the processor, but my memory seems to say around 40 MFLOPS?? NO! That can't be. Can someone report the MFLOPS on the 860 chip? By the way, IBM claimed in the Wizard product announcemeny that they will support it under AIX (IBM's Unix) "in the near future" Last I heard, the list on this board was $4000.00, and I've seen it MAIL ORDER for $3000.00. ADAPTER NAME: IBM* PS/2* Wizard Adapter SUPPORTS: PS/2* Computers with Micro Channel* Bus FEATURE CODE: 3462 PART NUMBER: 34F3062 BUS MASTER: YES AVAILABLE: 4/90 DESCRIPTION: An application accelerator that can significantly increase the performance of advanced, numeric-intensive applications on the PS/2* Model 70 and 80 computers. This bus master adapter uses the Intel** i860** microprocessor which features a RISC integer core, an advanced floating point processing unit, a graphics unit, internal instruction cache and internal data cache in a single 1-million transistor chip. The adapter also contains 2MB of random access memory (RAM), which is expandable to a total of 8MB using the IBM* PS/2 Wizard Memory Expansion Option (PN 34F3061). The adapter uses a set of application device drivers, shipped with the product, that enable operation with IBM Operating System/2* computer software. Software toolkits are available that enable developers to port C and FORTRAN applications to execute on the PS/2 Wizard Adapters. Also, I forgot the Prometa board when I made my last post. It's pretty fast, but you have to run THEIR unix: COMPANY: PROMETA AB -- [575-A] ADDRESS: Box 4049 S-18204 Enebyberg SWEDEN PHONE: 46-8-661-0454 / 1-800-283-6382 FAX: 46-8-792-5220 ADAPTER NAME: WS/88K Bus Master SUPPORTS: PS/2 - YES RISC System/6000 - NO 9371 Model 14 - NO BUS MASTER: YES AVAILABLE: 6/90 DESCRIPTION: Based on the Motorola 88000 RISC architecture. The WS/88K Bus Master provides a complete UNIX** System V workstation. It runs all 88Open BCS UNIX applications in parallel with OS/2* or DOS computer software. Integrated Windows** software user interface. 4-8MB RAM, 17 MIPS 7 MFLOPS (one processor). 1-4 processors. Good Luck!! -- Harry Haas GTRI/RIDL/DB "What makes it DO that!?" - Bones Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!hh2 Internet: hh2@prism.gatech.edu hhaas@{gtri01|rmadsun}.gatech.edu