Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:19:27 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: jiffies rollover, uptime etc. |
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:24:42PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > The other is a 3-issue VLIW follow-up to the 2-issue > > VLIW i860.
> Oh, I didn't know that processor was used for more than printers, raid > controllers, and similar.
The 860 is a great processor, and was very fast compared to the competition when introduced. Someone, Tektronics IIRC, built a really nice little workstation based on that chip and SysV UNIX. Had the use of one for a while, and it sure would do floating point!
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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