The chip, the i960ca, is designed for specialized applications, not for general-purpose computing.
They are widely used across many application domains including general-purpose computing.
Platform has also started to move into more general-purpose computing.
Prior to D3D11, it was possible to use D3D shaders for general-purpose computing, but developers had to jump through hoops.
Instead, they say, it will help preserve and expand general-purpose computing in the Internet age.
With a list price of $360,000, GeneMatcher would be too much for general-purpose computing.
It was used as a standard minicomputer for general-purpose computing, such as timesharing, scientific, educational, or business computing.
The OS-9 family was popular for general-purpose computing and remains in use in commercial embedded systems and amongst hobbyists.
This trend generally came to an end with the introduction of 32-bit processors, which has been a standard in general-purpose computing for two decades.
But the Project MAC vision was for shared, unrestricted access to general-purpose computing.