Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ames!mailrus!utah-gr!utah-cs!cs.utexas.edu!nth!chris From: chris@nth.UUCP (Chris Chauvin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: PS/2 transputer boards Message-ID: <232@nth.UUCP> Date: 24 Aug 88 21:59:44 GMT References: <8808161709.AA20575@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU> Organization: Nth Graphics, Ltd., Austin, TX Lines: 46 In article <8808161709.AA20575@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU>, K312240@AEARN.BITNET (Klaus Kusche) writes: > > There was a question regarding transputer boards for IBM PS/2 > (MicroChannel) systems on this list a few weeks ago. I met somebody of > the IBM lab Yorktown heights two weeks ago (I was asked not to give his > name) who said that a US company doing PC boards definitely will have a > PS/2 board *really soon now*. > > Hope that helps and causes the corresponding company to speak up on this > list! Well, I don't think we're the mystery company, but the company I work for -- Nth Graphics, Ltd. -- is introducing a single-transputer (T414 default) board in September. The board is intended as a graphics board: * 1/2 Meg frame buffer (4 bits deep) * Custom VLSI for fast lines and polygons * Generates its own video output * 2 Meg program memory In early 1989 we'll have a 2-transputer PS/2 graphics board: 1 T800 modelling chip (for databases, transforms, modelling, etc.) -- with 2 Meg program memory 1 T414 rendering chip -- 1 Meg frame buffer (8 bits deep) -- custom VLSI for fast lines & polys Plus an extension board sometime this fall to expand program and frame buffer memory. > What's the most important aspect to me: Will the host interface on that > PS/2 board be faster (DMA!) than the damned software polling solution on > all the PC boards now??? We won't support DMA on the single-transputer board. We probably will on the 1Q '89 two-transputer board. This is all unofficial info. Contact Fred Hudson at +1 512 832 1944 for the real stuff. -- -- Chris Chauvin UUCP: {...,uunet}!cs.utexas.edu!nth!chris INTERNET: chris%nth.uucp@cs.utexas.edu