[rescue] rescue Digest, Vol 169, Issue 47

[Michael Thompson]

> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:48:59 -0500
> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] sparc10 cpu - what to do
> 
> On 12/20/2016 01:45 PM, Michael Thompson wrote:
>>> The SGI Reality Engine and RE2 graphics options used i860 chips for
>>> their geometry processing.  The RE had 8 chips and the RE2 had 12.
>>> 
>>> There was also the Hauppauge 4860, a board aimed at AutoCAD with a 486
>>> and a i860 CPU.  There is a page on it here:
>>> http://www.geekdot.com/hauppauge-4860/
>>> 
>>> 
>> I have a quad-i860 board in one of my old Sun 4/260 systems.
> 
>  Ooooh!  Man I just drooled all over my shirt.  Got any software for it?
> 
>  That combines so many of my favorite things...High-speed coprocessors,
> parallel processing, VME, SPARC processors, early Sun logos...it sets me
> heart aflutter! =)
> 
>           -Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire, 

I believe that the development tools are on the 4/260's disk.