Re: [OT] Old kit

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 03/26/2010 10:16 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 24 March 2010 05:24:39 pm Michael Dillon wrote:
> > > For comparison look at the z-80 CPU which powered the early desktop
> > > computers. When the IBM PC came out, people thought that the Intel 8086
> > > would make the Z-80 obsolete. But it didn't. The Z-80 just disappeared
> > > into all sorts of electronic
> > > devices where it serves as a controller for some function, perhaps the
> > > video display or the disk drive servos. And you can still buy them.
> >
> > Lots of DVD drives use embedded Z80's as controllers, including the
> > dual-layer
> > drive in my laptop.  Never thought that my teenage years spent hacking
> > Z80
> > machine code on a TRS-80 could produce a currently marketable skill....
> >
> > Quick, Z80 joke coming.... Addr: 0000:21 00 00 01 FF FF 11 01 00 ED
> > B0.......Will it finish?
> >
> > Same is true of MIPS and PowerPC, though.  There are far more MIPS
> > chips in
> > routers than ever saw desktop use in SGI workstations; and while it
> > might take
> > a little while for Cisco's PowerPC driven routers' CPU's to outnumber
> > all the
> > PowerMacs our there, one day it will happen.
> >
> > And then all those PowerMac assembly language gurus might prove useful
> > in the
> > router side of the house.....
>
> The Juniper SRX-100 appears to have a MIPS or MIPS-like chip in it called
> an Octeon.

Cavium is mips arch... so are npu's or control plane processors from
RMI, Broadcom, Atheros, Marvell etc.

> Owen