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Intel and Microsoft thought so much of the i860's future, it was the architecture Microsoft started developing Windows NT on. Obviously...didn't work out.
by kjs3 4y ago
Intel and Microsoft thought so much of the i860's future, it was the architecture Microsoft started developing Windows NT on. Obviously...didn't work out.
- WorldMaker 4y agoSimilarly, NT allegedly invested a lot into supporting the even later (and more goofily named) Itanium [1] (IA-64) architecture. In general, Intel's history of failed architectures is almost more interesting than its history of winning architectures. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64
- kjs3 4y agoThe full Intel i960 implementation (i960MX & i960MC variants) was particularly interesting, supporting a capabilities based arch and a lot of built in fault tolerance features. Unfortunately, it got squeezed by the BiiN project going nowwhere in the end, and both the i386 & i860 competing for mindshare within Intel. In the end, they stripped out most/all of the nifty stuff and made a lot of money from i960 as a high-end but pedestrian embedded processor.