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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:46:11 +0800
From: Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org>
Organization: Me? Organised?
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n0ano@indstorage.com wrote:

> Achim-
> 
> Uh, what exactly do you think you have here?  The I860 was a
> completely new architecture that Intel dropped over 5 years
> ago.  I've got one running Unix SVR4 in my basement but you
> can't buy an I860 motherboard today.
> 
> (For the record the 860 was a great architecture for the time
> and I'm still bitter that Intel dropped it but that's a different
> story.)


Yep. The i432, sorry the i860, sorry the Itanium is most definitely 
going to be the next great processor, with a long and solid future!

Regards,
Steve




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