Squeak History / Tiny Machines

Tim Olson tim at io.com
Wed Mar 19 00:50:50 UTC 2003


Allen Wirfs-Brock <Allen_Wirfs-Brock at Instantiations.com> wrote:

| Actually, I believe that they did. However, it also failed. Intel form
a 
| joint venture with (I think) Siemens call Biin that was essentially a 
| follow on to the 432 work.  My understanding is that the i860
processor 
| family came out of that effort after Biin, itself was aborted.  

Close -- it was the i960.  The i860 was Les Kohn's graphics processor
design.

	-- tim



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