Path: utzoo!censor!geac!yunexus!ists!mike
From: mike@ists.ists.ca (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Symbolics co-processor board for the Sparcstation-1 ?
Message-ID: <1017@ists.ists.ca>
Date: 5 Sep 89 19:57:12 GMT
References: <EHO.89Sep4161034@cognito.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: mike@ai.ists.ca (Mike Clarkson)
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Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
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In article <EHO.89Sep4161034@cognito.Princeton.EDU> eho@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) writes:
>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) ? 


No chance, as the board is a VME bus board.  I doubt you could use a
SCSI bus for this kind of communication between the processors.

Nice idea though...

Mike.

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