Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/13/84; site intelca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!intelca!clif From: clif@intelca.UUCP (Clif Purkiser) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.arch Subject: 386 Family Products Message-ID: <129@intelca.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 12:44:40 EDT Article-I.D.: intelca.129 Posted: Wed Oct 23 12:44:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:40:40 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 81 Xref: watmath net.micro:12489 net.arch:1946 I think my orginal posting got lost in the net bit bucket in the sky. If this material is repeated my apologies. Wed. Oct 16, Intel announced the 80386 the newest 32-bit microprocessor along with an entire family of 386 products. While the entire list of press releases and Intel announcements would take too long to enumurate I thought I would highlight some of the more important portions of the 80386 introduction. The introduction consisted of speeches by Intel executives and two demonstrations of the 80386's incrediable functionality. An Intel 310 system was shown running Xenix 286 uith a 386 used in place of the 286. This demonstration was followed by Lotus, SideKick, and Flight Simulator all running on a PC-AT using an 386 to 286 adaptor board. Flight Simulator proved to be the hit of the show since it is the acid test of IBM PC compatibility, and looks great on a 8' x 10' screen. Additional demos included RMX-286 (Intel's real time OS) running at 16 MHz on a 386/20 board, and Daisy Systems CAD tools for board and system level designs using a real 386. In addition to the 80386 the following products were also introduced 386/20 A 386 based MultiBus I board featuring a 64K byte cache and a High Speed 32-bit memory interface supporting up to 16 megabytes of dual-port system memory. 386/100 A MULTIBUS II single board computer with the same memory configurations as the 386/20 with special purpose message passing silicon. PSCOPE 386 A ROM based high-level software debugger for the 80386. ICE 386 An In Circuit Emulator which provides full speed emulation of the 80386. It provides an excellent tool for hardware and software integration. Languages The following languages were announced for the 80386 ASM, C, PLM, FORTRAN, and ADA Software Tools A complete system of software tools including a Builder, Binder,Mapper, Librarian, and numerics support libraries. All software tools are orginally hosted on Xenix 286 based systems (in particular a Xenix 286/310 microcomputer) Hosting of these tools on other computers is planned for the near future. Weitek and Intel also announced an agreement under which both companies will develop and market a chip that provides an interface between the 80386 and Weitek's 1164 and 1165 64-bit floating point processors. The Weitek chip set provides floating-point performance in excess of 2 MFLOPS. Systems using the 80386 when combined with the Weitek Chip set will offer performance of 4 million Whetstones per second. Finally, AT&T and Intel announced the signing of a contract for porting of the Unix* System V Operating System to the 80386. The port is one of the first agreements for the Networking features of the System V operating system, and is a continuation of the AT&T-Intel partnership to bring state of the art Unix System V technology to Intel microprocessors. Additional information is available on these products by contacting your local Intel sales office or by calling toll free (800) 538-1876, ask for operator 386 and receive a packet of information about the 80386 (data sheet, product announcements etc). I am also posting a fairly short description of the 80386 itself. If you have additional comments you may contact me via e-mail. If time allows I will attempt to answer other questions. However I suspect most answers will be to call the above number. Clif Purkiser 386 Product Marketing {amd hplaps pur-ee}!intelca Unix is a trademark of AT&T ICE-386, PSCOPE-386, MULTIBUS, RMX are all trademarks of Intel