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From: mrd@SUN.MCS.CLARKSON.EDU ("Michael R. DeCorte")
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Subject: Info-Atari16 Digest V87 #416
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Date: Sun, 15-Nov-87 22:09:24 EST
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>The ABAQ includes 3 "links", which are 10-megabit-per-second serial
>interfaces for talking to off-board transputers.

Should I read this a yet another version of tcp, nfs and ftp but
made by atari to be incompatible with all other manufatures?  

>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.

Atari makes parallel computers and a presume an operating sytem that
will allow multi-tasking and multi-processors with a relitivly new and
unkown chip, hmmm.  Interesting coming from a manufacturer that can
not make a single user single taking os with a well known and popular
chip.  Sounds like vapor-ware to me.


Michael DeCorte
mrd@clutx.clarkson.edu
mrd@clutx.bitnet