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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: Atari Workstation
Keywords: Atari Transputer
Message-ID: <1517@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 14:19:01 GMT
References: <1449@wayback.UUCP> <6507@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <6507@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) writes:
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>A while ago I read about a transputer box that plugs into a plain Atari ST.
>Can one still get it?  With a t800 (rather than a t414)?  Price?
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>Alternatively, has anybody tried to interface an Inmos link adaptor chip
>to the ST parallel port or DMA port?  Would that be too hard to home-build?


Well, you asked for it.

A german magazine (called c't) published scamatics/desciptio/software
for a board called TEK4/8.

This is a B004-compatible plug in for the PC or AT. It runs the
INMOS-Occam-Compiler as well as the popular C- or FORTRAN-Compilers.
It can be equipped with a T414 or T800 (15 or 20 MHz) and up to 2
Megabytes of RAM (DRAM 41256 or the like).


In another article they showed a board that plugs to the ROM port and
gives you an ECB-Slot (Europa-Card-BUS, an Z80-Bussystem), a PC-Slot (or
more than one if you use a passive backplane) and up to 1 Megabyte ROM
(using bank switching of 64k blocks).

A little later they made software availeble to plug the TEK4/8 (or the
B004) to the "PC-Slot" and run the Inmos OCS (Occam Compiler System).


If You are interested in a copy of the articles, send IRCs and an
envelope with your adress to the Adress below. I've got permission to
send you a copy... (even a translation to my kind of "English" :-)


The drawback is the price: the universal interface is DM 228 (assembled
and tested, komplete part kit is DM 169).
The TEK4/8 basic set (empty card, all needed PALs, ST server software
for the universal interface, Inmos OCS, less RAM, Transputer, Link
adaptor..) is DM 499. (one buck is about DM 1,82 today).
all prices plus shipping and customs, of course.


I love the TEK. We use it at TUB (Technical University Berlin).
The ST interface is almost as fast as real DMA.
I heard about the universal interface used for a harddisk controller...


I'm not related to the Heise Verlag (publisher of c't) in any way but as
a really satisfied subscrber and customer.

hase
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