[pinewurst]

I think you mean 960 in RAID and comm controllers. The 860 had incredibly bad, almost unbelievably slow context switches. You’d never ever use it in a controller. A dedicated render pipeline is pretty all it was good for, for some value of ‘good’.

[notacoward]

I had the same reaction. The i860 and i960 were very different beasts. I owned an 860-based Oki/Stardent workstation, bought for peanuts at the latter company's fire sale, for a while. Later I found the 960CA (in particular) in many storage/network devices. So I kind of know both, but I would never speak of them as if they were the same. Other than sharing a corporate logo, they had little to do with one another.