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From: marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: RISC chips.
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Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 18:58:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 12 18:58:41 1984
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Someone was asking about the manufacture of RISC chips and their
availability.

Inmos makes a risc type chip that they call a transputer - actually
it uses an OCCAM instruction set.  The name is IMS T424.
Briefly, its a family of 16 and 32 bit processors, with a 50 nanosec
cycle time, 26 megabyte/sec memory interface with 4k static ram
on the chip (70 ns) plus dma interface, hardwired scheduler etc, etc.

More details from "Electronics" 56(23) 15pp p109 I. Barron,P. C. Avill,
et al, "Transputer does 5 or more mips even when not used in parallel"
Electronics, 11/17/83

		Marcus Hand