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From: P.Rocha@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Paulo V Rocha)
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Subject: National's Swordfish - request
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Date: 15 Mar 91 15:48:00 GMT
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We are planning to use the Swordfish in a parallel emulator for Neural
Networks. Our main concern is the software and hardware supports for the
processor, i,e, 

	1 - Are there compilers (like "C" and assemblers) for it already?
	    How good are they?
	2 - Have National released complete documentation, specifications
	    and/or application notes?

Basically we don't want to be left in the dark with a new chip in our
hands. We tried to contact National here in the UK by letter but so far
no answer (~1 month). Can anybody in the net help us with the information
above?

Thanks,

Paulo

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