Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!sigyn.idt.unit.no!solan1.solan.unit.no!dhmyrdal From: dhmyrdal@solan.unit.no (Dag H}kon Myrdal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Rumours about ARM4 & ARM5.... Message-ID: <1991Jan10.181647.13662@idt.unit.no> Date: 10 Jan 91 18:16:47 GMT References: <1589@tharr.UUCP> Sender: news@idt.unit.no (Usenet news admin) Reply-To: dhmyrdal@solan.unit.no (Dag H}kon Myrdal) Organization: Norwegian Institue of Technology Lines: 26 In article <1589@tharr.UUCP>, gtoal@tharr.UUCP (Graham Toal) writes: |> PS Obligatory unsubstantiated rumour: has anyone else heard talk of putting |> transputer-like links on the arm for multi-processor systems? |> -- I've heard that the ARM4 will have the FPA on-chip and transputer-like links (possibly also HW links for desktop "messages" between applications...) And.... the ARM5 will (this is also just a rumour) be four (!) ARM4's on a single chip.... This, I heard that Acorn worked on during last summer.... What ARM LTD does is another matter.... -- Dag Haakon Myrdal, student of electronics -- email: dhmyrdal@solan.unit.no (-SUN internet, Trondheim) snail: DH Myrdal, Moholt Alle 2-01, N-7035 Trondheim, Norway phone: +47 7 588244 -- About MS-DOS: "... an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at...." - Dave Trowbridge, _Computer Technology Review_, Aug 90