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From: schabacker@fra04.dec.com (posting for Christian Balzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: The Amiga Transputer Board (was Re: AT Bridgeboard, '020 Status?)
Message-ID: <8806131524.AA29958@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 13 Jun 88 15:24:46 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In a recent article Eric Lee Green writes:
>
>Perhaps you saw a paper handed out at Devcon, entitled "Transputer design
>concept" or something like that. Note the words "DESIGN CONCEPT" -- that is,
>it's just an idea, that may or may not eventually be available, depending upon
>whether Commodore sees any market for such a board. 
> 
>My thoughts on the matter: 8 Transputers (2 boards) would be handy for the
>graphics stuff, with appropriate programming. But I really don't relish the
>thought of Occam :-).
> 

No way Jose, the Amiga Transputer board (A2800, A2404??? :->) already
has left the vapourware orbit and is on its landing path. There was
one in one of the Amigas at CeBIT and two guys from Helios were
hanging around to impress you with some dazzling dhrystone benchmarks
(something in the 3000+ range).
The board is/was developed by CBM-Braunschweig here in Germany and
had one T800 (or T404, I'm not sure) and 2MB RAM on it. The release
version will come with 4 (four!) T800's (or at least 3 empty sockets
<grin>) and 4 MB RAM. They told me that they plan to offer a "sandwich"
PCB (to be placed above the Transputer board) that will include a
graphic interface which will turn your Amiga into the long roumored (sp?)
ABAC.

And the Helios guys are planning to release an Ansi C (with
semi-automatic modularisation for parallel processing) for the
Transputer soon, so you Occam fiends will be able to continue to deal
with the "Assembly language of the 80's". :-)

And even if CBM should not decide to produce the Transputer Board,
there are ALREADY several (different configuration) native Amiga
boards available from a German developer.

Let's multicompute 
(Amiga + Brideboard + 68020(30) card with Unix + Transputer + + +)

See ya,
	<CB>
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