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I never had a chance to play with the i960, what made it great? I seriously wish the SH-5 had actually been released and the new POWER chips were actually avai

I never had a chance to play with the i960, what made it great? I seriously wish the SH-5 had actually been released and the new POWER chips were actually available in a bit of a cheaper form.

nickpsecurity 11y ago
True on PPC and SH5. Far as i960, you need to know the context. Look at these: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiiN https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiiN https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960 The i432 was their most original work. It was a mainframe, capability-addressed, error recovery, and OS/apps in safe Ada. Did too much in hardware, though. BiiN had i960 which kept best parts of that. Think fast RISC with high reliability and security features.