Ah! The fabled Intel i860. I remember the massive amount of hype at its debut. It was touted as "Cray on a chip". I got to play with an Intel iPSC supercompute

Ah! The fabled Intel i860. I remember the massive amount of hype at its debut. It was touted as "Cray on a chip". I got to play with an Intel iPSC supercomputer in our Physics lab (at university) that used the i860. We had a Sun box that hosted cross-compilers for it and allowed you to reserve a specific number of i860 processors for you. The number had to be a power of 2. Fun times!