From: david+usenet@zx.net.nz   
      
   In article <877bxhf7kk.fsf@eder.anydns.info>, a_eder_muc@web.de says...   
   >   
   > On So 28 Sep 2025 at 22:57, Lawrence D?Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 22:21:58 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On Di 23 Sep 2025 at 20:49, jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> i860 never appeared in machines people could buy.   
   > >>   
   > >> My PPOE bought an Aliaint machine - i think it was FX/2800 - that was   
   > >> built with just such chips.   
   > >   
   > > According to Da Wiki, the FX/2800 range appeared in 1990   
   > > , so   
   > > Windows NT was still a (vapourware) glint in Dave Cutler?s eye at that   
   > > point.   
   > >   
   > > Presumably it was running some kind of Unix system.   
   >   
   > Yes, of course it was. But it was a machine people could buy with i860s   
   inside.   
      
   I don't think the issue was ever that you couldn't buy them - Olivietti   
   even sold some.   
      
   The issue was that they turned out to be not as good as expected, so   
   Microsoft built some new hardware using MIPS instead and switched   
   development to that.   
      
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