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From: schweige@suns2.cs.nps.navy.mil (jeffrey schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Coprocessor for amiga ?????
Keywords: transputer
Message-ID: <1462@suns2.cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 22 Sep 90 17:23:34 GMT
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Reply-To: schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
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In article <550@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) writes:
|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.  

[some of my previous posting deleted]

|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.

[summary of technical characteristics deleted]

The posting that prompted my original response dealt with a comment calling
a CBM transputer product 'vaporware'.  I'll readily acknowledge that someone
at some division of Commodore was investigating a transputer application.
However, to me at least, notes on a 'concept' from a developers conference do
not qualify as a product announcement.  Unless an announcement is made that
a product is intended for release (and this announcement should probably
come from the appropriate marketing people), the lack of that product does not
qualify as 'vaporware' (IMHO, :) ).

(This doesn't mean that I wouldn't mind seeing the product :-)  )

Jeff Schweiger


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