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From: greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Info-Atari16 Digest V87 #416
Message-ID: <431@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 09:54:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 09:54:18 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Nov-87 23:48:40 EST
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Reply-To: greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Organization: XIOS Systems Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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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 as yet another version of tcp, nfs and ftp but
>made by atari to be incompatible with all other manufatures?  

No, you should read it as three transputer connections.  In other words,
they are `serial' buses.  



>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.  

Atari did not write GEM - Digital Research did.  Blame DR.  The original
article also mentions that the transputer software is from someone other
than Atari. 

Sounds interesting to me!  I hope it flys.

-- 
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