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Subject: Transp[uters at IBM
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Date: 20 Feb 90 16:29:00 GMT
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David Boreham writes;

>There are definitely more IBM transputer projects. I know this
>not because I work for INMOS but because I've read about them
>in the press.

Do you have any examples?  I have heard that IBM has purchased more than
40,000 transputers.  Even with four Victor-256's you can only account for 
a very small percentage of the 40K.  Its an expensive way to make integrated
circuit jewelry...they don't make good doorstops (too low to the ground, 
but the pin-grid array does do a good job of grabbing the carpet) ...
are there other uses for transputers that we don't know of?

Steven W. Engle