[geeks] And it is all made clear (For the I860 haters among you)

[nick at snowman.net]

That happens to be in the article, but I don't remember the details.
	Nick

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:07:34AM -0500, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> > "Originally, we were targeting NT to the Intel i860 (code-named 'N-Ten)',
> > a RISC processor that was horribly behind schedule. Because we didn't have
> > any i860 machines in-house to test on, we used an i860 simulator. That's
> > why we called it NT, because it worked on the 'N-Ten.'"
> > -Mark Lucovsky
> > Distinguished Engineer
> > Windows Server Architect
> > 
> > http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winserver2k3_gold1.asp
> 
> Who would be an i860 hater?
> 
> Anyone know when they switched from N-Ten to MIPS?
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