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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Atari inmos transputer based computer ?!?!?
Message-ID: <557@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 06:17:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.557
Posted: Mon Aug 24 06:17:13 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Aug-87 01:42:14 EDT
References: <4104@udenva.UUCP> <26201@sun.uucp>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Not to mention the TT and Mega-ST...

In article <26201@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> In article <4104@udenva.UUCP> pbrody@udenva.UUCP (Paul Brody ) writes:
> |	I read in one of the more recent issues of THe Guardian that Atari
> | has announced a inmos transputer and 68000 based computer due out next year.
> Is this supposed to come out before or after the Atari PC (which is getting on

Not to mention the TT and the Mega ST...

I have also heard that the Transputer is proving to be as successful an
innovation as bubble memory. Now if it was one of the new AT&T DSP chips,
that'd be a whole different kettle of fiche.

That sounds like a good idea to me. AT&T says they have a good 'C' compiler
and UNIX for their 25 Megaflop DSP chip. I would think a Zorro card with the
AT&T DSP and a chunk of RAM should be fairly easy (by comparison with the
difficulty of doing a whole new computer). Run it in a window like the 2088,
but with tighter coupling to the 68000 (after all, this time you don't need
to allow for an obsolete architecture).

Or else get the 20286 card out quick-smart so you can use the AT DSP card
that's alread in the works...
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-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)