[geeks] just to stir things up, a few predictions

[Dave Fischer]

lefa at ucsc.edu writes:

>More trivia, NT is called that because the original target 
>for the research project was the N-Ten processor (aka the 
>80860). When it was clear that processor sucked big donkey 
>balls and the x86 was thought to be a dead end (late 80's 

i860 was great at what it was originally designed for -
a dedicated math processor for graphics cards and such.
(Painfully, certainly, but still great.)

>everyone was talking about RISC)... M$ and MIPS Computer 
>developed together a reference platform for NT and named 
>it the Magnum. In fact all the earlier development of NT 
>was done on MIPS machines, and it seems that M$ had a 
>large say on the design of the MIPS box. Which I think 
>later was used as the reference platform for the ACE 
>project. Who remembers those?

I get confused between ACE & CHRP.

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