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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