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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Should the ATW be the model of the future?
Summary: We're headed for network-in-a-box.  Why not ATW?
Keywords: Transputer network ATW future
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.224002.12660@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Mar 91 22:40:02 GMT
References: <1991Mar11.222942.12560@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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I wonder if Atari might have accidentally grabbed a jump on the rest of the
industry with the ATW (which they now seem to be wishing would go away
anyhow).  Multiple-instruction-stream-multiple-data-stream concepts (like
the X model of separating the display engine and compute engine, or the
hardware model of object-oriented programming) seem to be coming to get us.
The ATW seems to handle that kind of thing just great.  And the engineering
shakedown is already done.  Wouldn't it be nice.......(and if you assume
that development is already amortized, what could they be sold for in the
mass market)?
                                 Steve     saj@chinet.chi.il.us