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I've programmed both, though only shipped products that used the i960 (CA and KB). I believe the i960 tended to be used in things like printers but there weren
by justthisonce666 5y ago
I've programmed both, though only shipped products that used the i960 (CA and KB). I believe the i960 tended to be used in things like printers but there weren't many design wins for the i860.
I managed to miss the magic that is the 88k thankfully. Who actually used it? Linotype? Tek workstations maybe?
- justthisonce666 5y agoWhile I was musing about such matters, now, the TI C80 MVP, that was an interesting one to write software for.
- __d 5y agoSome NCD X terminals used M88k CPUs.
- the_only_law 5y agoI’ve been trying to hunt down some X terminals recently. So far have only found some HP ones.
- __d 5y agoI used to have both a 15" all-in-one model, and a separate pizza-box style model with a 17" monitor. IIRC, both were 88k CPUs.
- jes 5y agoI worked with the Intel i960CA parts and the i960MX parts, while working for Applied Microsystems Corporation (now defunct.) Applied made high-end in-circuit emulators. My team worked on software for execution trace disassemblers. We had wide and deep memories and could record something like 16,384 bus cycles in emulator (trace) memory. Once we had some bus cycles to analyze, we’d sort out what the processor had done when it ran (an execution trace) and show it. It was a great tool for answering questions like “How did I get here?” when your embedded code jumped off into the weeds. The i960CA was relatively simple to work with. The i960MX was a lot more complicated, as I recall.
- tenebrisalietum 5y agoI think either the i860 or i960 was a CPU used in Adaptec PCI cards in the 90s.
- krylon 5y agoI recall Wikipedia saying one of them (I tend to confuse the two) was popular in RAID controllers, so that sounds plausible.
- bashinator 5y agoI believe Data General AViiON mainframes used m88k CPUs. One came through a used computer shop I worked at in the early 2000s.