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From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST Transputer
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.133505.2888@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 2 Dec 90 13:35:05 GMT
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In article <1990Nov30.120037.24132@warwick.ac.uk> csual@warwick.ac.uk
(Jas) writes:
> 
>    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...
This was done some time back by a company called Triangle if i 
remember, and you could add extra Inmos T800, to get more mips
but you still get the limmited ST's screen resolutions, if it was
worth while the othere add on would still be here, i do have a Magazine
with the Triangle unit in, plus i think a review, will post if wanted..
 
 
-- 
Roger W. Sheppard   85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...