Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:37:50 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:
 

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:54:05 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

   Ummmmm ... I just TRIED with the "Bit-Slice" topic.
   Jumped IMMEDIATELY back to 'non-OS/Computer stuff'

 
How about that bubble memory?

 
What I recall was all the hype about how bubble memory was going to
surpass everything else and the shift was "just around the corner".
 
Thirty years later and few even remember "bubble memoriess" were ever a
thing.

 
The memory hole is deep and dark. I think I still have the preliminary
datasheets for the iAPX 432 that was going to be Intel's real 32 bit
processor. The iAPX 86 was a stop gap until they got the bugs worked out.

Yup, and then IBM picked the 8088 variant for their new IBM-PC in 1982,
and that moved the "profit" equation to favor the iAPX 86 line from
then onward.

However, I don't have any of the datasheets for the 432.....