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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Article in Electronic Engineering Times
Message-ID: <6402@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 12 Dec 88 07:06:44 GMT
References: <37@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <37@microsoft.UUCP>, w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) says:
> In article <495@morgoth.UUCP> steve@morgoth.UUCP (Steven G. Hall) writes:
>>Quotation from EE Times:
>>     Commodore took the opportunity at Comdex to show prototypes of a
>>Transputer-based Amiga system.  It also displayed - to selected
>>parties - a 68030 powered system.
> 
> What *is* this?  A transputer-based Amiga would not, in my opinion,
> be an Amiga.  The transputer has a strange and wonderful multitasking

It works like the Bridgeboard -- Helios in a window. See the
proceedings from the last DevCon, which had a writeup on what the
German guys did for the Transputer board....

> I assume this EE Times reporter is talking through his hat, but could
> someone who knows reassure me?

Not talking through his hat, simply didn't make it clear that the
68030 board and the Transputer board were both simply plug-in cards
for the Amiga 2000.

> (P.S. I also like the reference to the 500, and, "at the other end of the
> performance spectrum", the 2000.  Gee, I hadn't noticed one was faster
> than the other; had you?)

Hmm, let's see... plug this 68030 board into this slot, HERE, and...
gee, NOW do you see the difference?! ;-).

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