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From: PVR@BGERUG51.BITNET (Patrick Van Renterghem / Transputer Lab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Transputers and Helios
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Date: 20 Dec 88 22:15:00 GMT
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In response to

> From: Cheol Kim <oodis01!uplherc!esunix!ckim@TIS.LLNL.GOV>
> Organization: Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, Utah

Is Evans and Sutherland finally thinking about using transputers ?

>>  1) What is a transputer?

It is a wonderful thing, especially when you have lots of them.

>>  2) To what OS is helios most similar?

>       Following is taken from someone else's message.  Pardon me.

It's nothing, go ahead.

>         * Helios: (Perihelion Software Ltd.)
> ... stuff deleted ...
> Helios is already being used for a wide variety of transputer-based
> applications:  for embedded  systems,  for  PC  and  other  plug-in
> boards,  for workstations and for transputer-based computer systems.

Add to this: the current version contains a lot of bugs, some systematic and
some stochastic. We are hoping to see a new release of Helios real soon. This
looks promising, but don't look to closely at it (or it crashes !).

> Patrick Van Renterghem, Seminar Coordinator "Transputers for Ind. Appl."

And Transputers for Industrial Applications II.

Patrick