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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Whay has commodore droped the transputer
Message-ID: <821@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 88 19:34:28 GMT
References: <989@dsacg3.UUCP> <1544@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Organization: Ohio State Math-Stats Dept
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In article <1544@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes:
>  One wonders what
> the transputer might have become if fielded five years ago.  Today
> (with 20 MIP RISC processors) it just isn't worth a second glance.
I thought that the point of the transputer was 'painless' parallel
processing. Do RISC chips include this as a matter of course?

Of course hypercube and such are for a limited market. Perhaps what one
may want is to use the Amiga as a front end to such beasts (?).

-Nath
vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu