Editing PARAM (section)

===PARAM 8600===
PARAM 8600 was an improvement over PARAM 8000. In 1992 C-DAC realised its machines were underpowered and wished to integrate the newly released [[Intel i860]] processor.<ref name="1994-bhatkar" /> Each node was created with one i860 and four Inmos T800 transputers.<ref name=1997-marvin /><ref name="1996-kahaner" /><ref name="UNIDO" /> The same PARAS programming environment was used for both the PARAM 8000 and 8600; this meant that programs were portable.<ref name="1996-kahaner" /><ref name="UNIDO" /> Each 8600 cluster was noted to be as powerful as 4 PARAM 8000 clusters.<ref name="UNIDO" />