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From: ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar)
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Subject: Re: Coprocessor for amiga ?????
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Date: 22 Sep 90 14:59:19 GMT
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In article <1448@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (jeffrey schweiger) writes:
>I don't recall CBM (especially the US marketing organization that is the
>user of the name) ever announcing a transputer product for the Amiga.  I
>have seen third party transputer products advertised for the Amiga.  
>SANG Computer Systems is listed in the Transputer White Pages as having a
>"MEGA-Link Interface" board for the Amiga, which allows the use of SANG's
>MEGA-Link series of transputer boards.

Referring to the notes from the "2nd European Amiga Developers
Conference", the section entitled "A2000 Transputer Concept" by Dieter
Preiss of Commodore Braunschweig, West Germany.  It describes a
Commodore developed set of boards running the Helios operating system
and designed for the A2000.

The basic kit is the root transputer board, and the Helios OS.  The root
board is a T414 (15 MHz) and 1M of RAM, expandable to 4M of RAM.  The
T414 can be replaced by a T800.  The root board uses the C0012 device to
link to the Amiga.

A further board is available with 4 transputers, meaning that a total of
17 transputers per Amiga is possible.  By using a hardware link, more
Amigas can be used, up to 65536 transputers in total all of which act
like one big machine under Helios.

Refer to the notes for more details.

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