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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Lies (was: Re: Atari/Perihelion Transputer Machine Spec)
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Date: Sun, 15-Nov-87 00:59:48 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 15 00:59:48 1987
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In article <888@atari.UUCP> neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) writes:
>> 
>> False. The "standard" number of Transputers on the ABAQ system is 1 (ONE).
>> The maximum is 13.
>
>Internally.
>
>The ABAQ includes 3 "links", which are 10-megabit-per-second serial
>interfaces for talking to off-board transputers.
>
>Jack Lang, in his talk at the Atari press conference at Comdex, supposed a
>setup where workers each had their own transputer system on their desks,
>with all of them linked together and linked to a separate box containing
>many transputers.  As an application's need for processing power increased,
>it could pull more transputers in.  An intriguing concept -- throw the
>computer into high gear.

Apollo has this today - NCS - Network Computing System. Basically
a program can call subroutines on other machines on the network.
Even different computers (Cray's to PC's) on heterogeneous networks.

This was demonstrated at the national Apollo user group meeting in 
San Francisco. They had about a dozen machines all hooked together,
ranging from 8Mhz 68000 to 25 Mhz 68020 to high end bit-slice
beasts. One computer ran a mandelbrot program. You zoomed in
on an area with the mouse, said "go" and ZZAP! 32 x 32 pixel squares
started coming in over the network. It was wierd to see the picture
'fade in' in little squares, but my oh my, it was fast. They also
had a ray tracer. Equally impressive !

I met one of the members of the Apollo 'midnight movie crew', and
we talked for a while. When at one point I mentioned a Cray, he
got quite mad and said "Why in hell would I want a Cray ? We have
a network of 2000 machines, of which at least 1000 are up at any
point in time. Everybody goes home at 5:30, and *poof* I don't
need a Cray. 30 DN 3000's is all you need to see damn near real
time ray tracing"

(DN3000 is 16 Mhz '020)

>Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation

Does anybody know what year advertising became marketing communications ? 

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