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From: johnr@ogccse.ogc.edu (John Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Hottest Workstation for the money
Summary: Cogent XTM parallel workstation
Message-ID: <2565@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 5 May 89 07:01:26 GMT
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Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR
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In article <369@npiatl.UUCP>, dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes:
> In everyone's personal opinion, what is the hottest workstation
> currently available for around $10,000-12,000?  Need Unix (SV or BSD), TCP/IP,
> NFS, and graphics (prefer 8bit color).  I already have a great RGB 24'' monitor 

Without a doubt..... The Cogent XTM workstation!!!
 
For around $20K you get two Inmos T800 transputers each with 4 Mbytes of
RAM, a 90 Mbyte hard drive, an 800K floppy drive and a 1024 by 808 by 256
grey scale monitor.  However the most important thing about the system
is that it is scalable!  You can attach a "resource server" with more
processors (and memory).  The operating system has built into it a
communication system called "Linda" which makes parallel programming
much easier than other parallel machines.  The operating system is
highly compatible with Unix System V.
 
John Roberts
johnr@ogccse.ogc.edu