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From: srm@cacs.usl.edu (Seshagiri Rao Myneni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: X-windows on Transputer based systems
Keywords: X-windows, Transputer, Cogent XTM
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Date: 19 Mar 90 07:54:58 GMT
References: <[A.ISI.EDU].9-Mar-90.15:09:16.ENGLE>
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In article <[A.ISI.EDU].9-Mar-90.15:09:16.ENGLE> ENGLE@A.ISI.EDU writes:
>> From Mark Edmonds:
>> Does anyone know if X-windows is supported on any of the graphics TRAMS (or
>> boards) available, preferably written in occam.  I heard INMOS were porting
>> X-windows to their graphics TRAM - any info available? 
>
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>As far as I know, Helios has the only version of X-Windows running on 

We are using X-windows available on Cogent XTM, which is a Transputer
T-800, based system.

>transputers.  This is the version that Inmos is showing.   S. Zenith is 
>correct in thinking that range checking has been added, it seems that the 
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>because of the 2D block moves available, and also the fact that you can
>often dedicate a transputer to X (though under Helios you don't have to) and
>thus you aren't competing against the X-server for cycles.

>Steven W. Engle
>MIMD Systems, Inc.

Seshu.


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