Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!phoenix.princeton.edu!eho From: eho@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Symbolics co-processor board for the Sparcstation-1 ? Message-ID: Date: 4 Sep 89 20:10:34 GMT Sender: news@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: Cognitive Science Lab. Princeton University. Lines: 26 Having seen Symbolics' recent ad about their co-processor board for the Suns I'm wondering if anyone at Symbolics is developing similiar stuff for the pizzabox (Sparcstation-1) ? It would be nice if Symbolics can find a way to use existing memory on the Suns rather than using their own tagged memory -- it all depends on how the Sun "sees" the co-processor board and how the board is used I guess. I mean, those who are opting for the co-processor boards might already have quite a bit of memory stuffed on their desktop and it is a bad idea I guess if that can't be used by the co-processor board. Without the 10 meg of RAM on the co-processor board I think that the price for the board (& the developement system) may drop quite a bit -- I mean, it is ridiculous to move (or buy) a 3 mips deskside 3/160 and buy a $21K co-processor board into your office when you already got a less than $9K 8~16meg 13 mips pizzabox with on your desk -- it just doesn't make sense (especially when the board is more expensive than a deskside unit let alone the pizzabox). -- Eric Ho Cognitive Science Lab., Princeton University voice = 609-987-2987 email = eho@confidence.princeton.edu 609-987-2819 (messages) eho@bogey.princeton.edu regards. -eric-