Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!inmos!davidb
From: davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: C004 does slow down links
Message-ID: <1162@brwa.inmos.co.uk>
Date: 2 Mar 89 19:23:23 GMT
Reply-To: davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham)
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
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braner@batcomputer...... writes that he has it on good authority that
one and two C004s in a T800--T800 link do not slow down the data-rate.

Unfortunately, this is not correct. One C004 slows the link down by
about 20%, two devices by about 40%.

As to the story about IBM buying 5E+100 transputers or whatever,
this was a misprint in "Computergram".

IBM do however have quite a few transputer projects, some of which
are documented publicly. One of these uses quite a few processors,
but not 50,000 !

This posting is not to be regarded as INMOS customer support.
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