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From: ALLEN@bio-medical-physics.aberdeen.ac.uk
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Subject: Sbus transputer card.
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Date: 14 Mar 91 17:49:49 GMT
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Peter Clayton asks:

> Can anyone tell me if there is a commercially available single-transputer
> board for the Sun SBus, in the vain of the b004 or b008 for the IBM PC bus? 
> I am looking for a reasonably priced way of interfacing an external
> transputer cluster to a Sun IPC through the SBus.

> Peter
 
As no-one else seems to have replied to this...

The only transputer Sbus board I am aware of is made by Archipel (a French
company):

Volvox-1/S.  Can have T4/T8 and 1 or 4 MB.  3 links + sys. serv. to external
conector.

They also advertise Volvox-Par, a software package for integrating
transputers into your application running on the Sun.

The UK price (through Digitimer (Tel. +44 707 328347)) for Volvox-1/S
(T8-20 + 1 MB) was 1680 pounds in Sept 1990.

Volvox-Par: 950 pounds.

Archipel are at:
P.A.E. du Levray-Cran
4 route de Nanfray
74000 Annecy
France.


Usual disclaimers.

Anyone using Archipel (or any other) Sbus hardware?


Alastair Allen.
University of Aberdeen
UK.
allen@uk.ac.abdn.biomed