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The July 1986 issue of BYTE (vol 11, no 7) has an article in
the KERNEL section entitled
BYTE U.K.: Personal Supercomputers
about the Transputer and the Meiko "Computing Surface" machine
based on it. It mentions
> Inmos showed some classy graphics demonstrations, including
> multi-processor ray-tracing programs that speeded up as more
> Transputers got switched in ...
> ... In the [final] demo, four layers of the actual CAD database
> files containing the layouts for the T414 were animated in
> three dimensions and real time so that we "flew" throught the
> chip layout itself.
There is about half a page or so about how they configured the
machine for this graphics work and some of the surprising snags
they found with the original way they tried to do it.
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William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (gw: cs.ucl.edu)
Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP
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