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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Should the ATW be the model of the future?
Keywords: Transputer network ATW future
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.185224.8253@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 12 Mar 91 18:52:24 GMT
References: <1991Mar11.222942.12560@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991Mar11.224002.12660@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Mar11.224002.12660@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
>I wonder if Atari might have accidentally grabbed a jump on the rest of the
>industry with the ATW...

I heard a rumor that the reason Inmos backed out of their Colorado Springs
production facility, which was to be a source of Transputers for Atari and
others, is that DOD wouldn't let them re-export Transputers to UK!  Anybody
know if there's any truth to this?
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