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From: hht@sarnoff.sarnoff.com (Herbert H. Taylor   x2733)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Vector Processors for ATBUS Apollos
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Date: 12 Jun 90 19:24:40 GMT
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Organization: David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, NJ
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   This leads to an important Apollo futures question. Does Apollo
intend to support a more robust bus than ATBUS for their product line
- other then VME on a DN10000?  We host our HDTV Video Supercomputer
(a.k.a. The Princeton Engine) with Mentor Graphics CAD System running
on Apollo. The DSP90/multibus based systems we are presently using are
running out of gas. We are presently building a system for NIST and
the prospect of hosting a 29Giga Op computer through "ATBUS" is
depressing...
   Perhaps someone out there who "really" understands Apollo's
strategy could explain it to me. 

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