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From: johne@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Parallel hardware for undergraduate instruction
Message-ID: <1290001@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Sep 90 16:21:06 GMT
References: <2881@canisius.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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< We are looking at hardware to use in teaching parallel programming
< and operating systems for Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.  One
< obvious idea is to get some transputer boards and plug them into
< PCs.  
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Circuit Cellar Ink by Steve Ciarcira(sp) did a parallel programming
project using  eight 8051 microcomputers. He used it to find mandlebrot
numbers. It was very inexpensive but did teach a lot about parallel
programming.


John Eaton
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