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From: shirley@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What about Transputers for NeXT?
Message-ID: <1991May16.133532.22847@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 16 May 91 13:35:32 GMT
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I saw an article in a magazine (last month's Byte?) that had a transputer board w/
one processor and an OCCAM compiler for an <cringe> PC.  It was relatively inexpensive
(< $200 if I remember correctly).  The advertizement was aimed toward the hobbyist/ midnight
engineer type.  Something similar for a NeXT would be interesting.  It would exclude
the growing numbers of slabs out there, but that's what you expect when you buy a machine
w/o slots.

It seems to me that that company (I don't remember it's name either and, yes, I'm too 
lazy to go find that add again) should just get a NeXTbus developement package and go
to it.

It would be interesting to the researcher, hobbiest, developer. 

(Is this really lighting a fire under anyone, or is this just an excersize in purging
my thoughts? <rhetorical>)

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