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From: graeme@grep.co.uk (Graeme Cawsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Handheld supercomputer
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.203929.19468@grep.co.uk>
Date: 22 Jan 91 20:39:29 GMT
Reply-To: graeme@rainbow.grep.uucp.co.uk (Graeme Cawsey)
Organization: Grep Limited, LEEDS, UK
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So you want a portable computer with some 'serious' computing power?
Try this one for size.

The Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in the UK have developed a
handheld (:-) capable of 200 (yes, that's two hundred) MIPS.  The
machine, called Mousetrap, is the size of a ream of A4 paper, weighs
under 2kg and runs on batteries.  It has a 12.5cm colour LCD, what looks
like a 2 * 32 character LCD, a keypad and again what looks like 2 
communication ports.  The Mousetrap is based around 16 Inmos T800 
transputers, each with 256K of SRAM (total 4Mb), placed directly onto a
ceramic substrate.  There is no operating system as such, but the 
Mousetrap runs applications written in occam from EPROM.

Graeme Cawsey	(graeme@grep.co.uk)
Grep Ltd., Kirkfields Business Centre, Kirk Lane, Leeds, UK, LS19 7LX
Tel: +44 532 500303