Releasing OS/2
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Sun Oct 16 01:35:29 CDT 2005
Doc Shipley wrote:
> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
>> And I seem to recall some number-crunching board with an i860 on it or
>> something.
>
>
> By Sky Computing, maybe? I have a Sun 670MP with a couple of
> coprocessors made by them. It's in storage and I don't have the
> inventory handy, but IIRC each VME board had an i960 controller and 4
> i860 coprocessors (or maybe vice versa), each with 4MB of cache. It's
> effectively a huge FPU.
>
> I'm pretty sure that in looking it up I found references to the same
> sort of product for other platforms.
Sounds familiar. That might have been it.
Peace... Sridhar
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