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From: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.OZ (Ian Farquhar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A new Amiga from Japan?
Summary: Transputer cards - where is CBM's entry?
Message-ID: <130@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Date: 19 Jan 90 12:46:42 GMT
References: <5389@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <9367@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <9367@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>in article <5389@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>, wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) says:

[much deleted]

>> Plus there are lot more vendors of things like Transputer boards, 88K boards 
>> and DSP boards. 
>
>I think one of each would be sufficient.  No Amiga 88k board yet, but if all
>you were concerned about was faster ray tracing, I think a Transputer board
>would be the way to go.  As long as you have a host adaptor for the particular
>bus (PC or Amiga), the rest is moot; you have equal access from the Amiga or
>the PC to the Transputer network.  Considering all that cash you're going to
>pay for that Meiko Computing Surface, you might as well buy the host machine
>you like the best.

So when is the official CBM Transputer card coming, Dave?  I have had
info on it for almost a year now.


All hail Saint Fubar, parton saint of computer programmers.

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