Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ?

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Date	2011-05-15 12:12 -0700
From	"Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net>
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Subject	Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ?
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On 5/15/2011 12:06 PM, Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
> On 5/15/2011 10:00 AM, Michael S wrote:
>> On May 15, 6:18 pm, "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew"<a...@SPAM.comp-arch.net>
>> wrote:
>>> The i960 legacy moved to Arizona.
>>>
>>
>> I still don't understand why they killed i960 that, by the time of
>> decision, was the best-selling 32-bit RISC CPU, in favor of ARM, that,
>> outside of handheld niche, hardly had any presence at all in embedded
>> CPU world.
>> Who was a genius that made this decision?
>
> I don't know.
>
> All I know is that in 2002 I considered doing Intel ARM Xscale
> architecture, to the point of househunting in Arizona, but decided not
> to because I felt that Intel would never allow ARM/Xscale to compete
> against x86 - and that was inevitably where ARM was heading. In the form
> of smart phones and tablets, real computers that just happened to be in
> really low power and small form factors.
>
> Instead I went to AMD in 2002.
>
> Selling Xscale to Marvell happened quite a bit later, in 2006. Heck, I
> had returned to Intel by then.


Woops, I thought you were talking about "Why did Intel abandon 
ARM/Xscale?", rather than "Why did Intel abandon i960 and pick up 
ARM/XScale?"

No insight there either, except to note that Intel has limited mindshare 
for anything non-x86, non-PC, non-server.

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What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-08 23:01 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? kym@kymhorsell.com - 2011-05-09 04:07 +0000
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-09 08:45 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "robertwessel2@yahoo.com" <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-08 23:58 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-09 09:02 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-05-09 09:43 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2011-05-09 09:38 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "robertwessel2@yahoo.com" <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-09 11:14 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2011-05-09 14:51 -0400
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) - 2011-05-09 16:31 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-09 18:16 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? mac <acolvin@efunct.com> - 2011-05-09 17:27 +0000
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-09 19:38 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2011-05-09 20:23 -0500
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-10 03:04 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-11 14:23 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-12 02:45 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-12 20:41 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2011-05-14 23:24 -0400
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-15 09:18 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-15 10:00 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-15 12:06 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-15 12:12 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-15 16:16 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-05-15 20:58 +0100
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-15 15:59 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-05-16 08:58 +0100
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-05-16 07:43 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2011-05-16 22:46 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? timcaffrey@aol.com (Tim McCaffrey) - 2011-05-19 16:13 +0000
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2011-05-15 20:33 -0400
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-11 05:53 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? whygee <yg@yg.yg> - 2011-05-11 07:10 +0200
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-07-04 09:39 -0700
Re: What are the various alternate uses for the PC's LSB ? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-07-04 10:23 -0700

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