On 4/20/16 6:57 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2016-04-20 5:12 AM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote:
Intel's effort at RISC. Didn't go so well for them, but did inspire
the name of Windows NT and was the original host platform for the
then-new OS.
The i860 was a neat little bugger. There was an iPSC/860 done by Intel
which would be a fun box to save/rescue/run with its own variation of
Unix.
There were some coprocessor cards that used it as well - I see them on
ebay periodically. I think the YARC used AMD 29K... was there an
i860/i960 version as well?
I'm changing the subject because the subject of RISC coprocessor
boards has already been interesting to me; I owned the NuBus Levco
Translink II (for Mac II family) with four TRAM slots for transputers.
Also going to mention the BBC Tube coprocessor here. Which had an ARM
version, iirc.
--Toby
Ok, this one's from the 70s, and it's a large, external unit rather than
a single board, but I have a Floating Point Systems AP-120B, essentially
an array processor for fast floating point operations. There's a bit of
information here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPS_AP-120B
I'd love to get it running one of these days, just need +5V at 100A and
a set of interface boards for a PDP-11...
- Josh
