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From: csual@warwick.ac.uk (Jas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ST Transputer
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.120037.24132@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Nov 90 12:00:37 GMT
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   I recently posted an article regarding a proposed transputer add-on for the
ST, and asked if anyone wanted further details. Enough people have replied for
me to post the rest, so here it is.
  Before I start though, I want to stress that this add-on DOES NOT yet exist,
and may never do, it could just be vapourware but I'm going to pass it on
anyway as it sounds pretty interesting. All this info comes from the Dec.1990
issue of ST Format.

  Atari are supposedly working on an ST-based transputer workstation "at a
price observers believe is simply astonishing". Full tech.spec. is a long way
off, but it is likely to attach by the DMA socket and enable the ST to run at
15-20 MIPS, compared to the ST's 1 MIPS.
  The price is supposed to be about 300-400 pounds, making it an incredibly
attractive sounding graphics workstation.
  It is NOT just a rehashed ATW, it is a completely separate project.
  Andy Leaning of Silica (major U.K. ST dealers) is quoted as saying that the
unit is "bobbing around on the horizon", but "nothing official".

  That's about the face of it - if you want to read it with a pinch of
salt, that's probably a good idea, but it does sound VERY interesting. And
they are talking about a summer 1991 release...