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From: geraint@prg.oxford.ac.UK (Geraint Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: T801 etc
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Date: 8 Apr 88 20:03:28 GMT
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Someone  asked about T801 transputers;  at the occam User Group's UK meeting in
Sheffield  at the end of last month,  Chris Followell  outlined  INMOS'  future
hardware plans. Modulo my mistakes what he said was:

        T800E   25MHz T800  in fourth quarter 1988

        T801    (-20/25/30 Mhz, 10 and 20 M bits/sec links)
                T800 but with 2 cycle non multiplexed external memory
                interface so in a huge 100(-ish) pin grid array package
                in fourth quarter 1988

        T222    16-bit transputer (remember the T212?) but with 4kbytes
                of on-chip store, and faster links. He may have said that
                INMOS were going to stop making slow links, but since I
                didn't write it down, I won't swear to it.
                `May 1988'

        T425    re-engineered T4xx made by leaving the FPU off the T800
                fourth quarter 1988

I seem  to remember  a date  for a 30MHz  T800,  but I wouldn't  swear  to that
either.  Beware `fourth quarter  1988',  which seems to mean fourth quarter  of
the financial year, so is in 1989.

There was a very convincing sales pitch for INMOS `transputer  modules',  lumps
of store and processors  on standard-pin  boards,  and a range of socket boards
equipped with link-switches and weeny transputers controlling those switches.
                                                                             gj