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From: esx038@cck.coventry.ac.uk ("W. J. G. Overington")
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Date: 31 Jul 90 11:36:16 GMT
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Whereas
>>While we all waiting for the H1 revelations, what news is there
>>of the new Inmos E1 processor, a successor to the H1 which will
>>offer 500-1000 MIPS for the Unix workstation market?
and
> At the Transputer Applications '90 conference at Southampton University
&c

I have only recently joined the group on the net and am gradually 
running up to speed, so please excuse me if I am asking something
that has been covered recently, but I am wondering what is going on! :-)

Is it the case that Inmos Limited, as well as the T series transputers
that it has already, is about to, or has just, introduced a new series of H
processors and will in a few years time introduce a further series of E
processors?

Are these all transputers, or are they significantly different from
transputers, as is, say, the Motorola M68000?
Will the H and E make the T transputers obsolescent? Or what?

Could someone perhaps review what we know at present about this please?

Does this mean that Inmos Limited, with T, H and E processors will be
THE processor manufacturer of the 1990s? :-) Now there's a slogan!

On a general point, I have noticed that whenever I put a query onto
the net I get a number of replies direct to myself, but that the information
is not usually broadcast over the net to everybody else.
Also, I see some very interesting questions asked, but only rarely do the
answers appear. Presumably the askers are getting their replies direct as
I do. How do people feel about sending more of these replies around the
net too? Certainly there are cases where this should not be done (e.g. if
someone is pointing out a major blunder, so as to avoid embarrassment) or
where it could not be done for political reasons (e.g. we don't mind telling
you, but we wouldn't want it broadcast!), but usually it would be
very helpful.


Will Overington
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering,
Coventry Polytechnic,
Priory Street,
Coventry CV1 5FB
England