eugene@ames.UUCP (08/26/84)
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Last week, we had a discussion with a member of the Goddard Space Telescope
effort [They are not on the net because they went with VMS.]. Anyway,
We would be interested in hearing from anyone on cheap image processing
systems (perhaps using 68K as a minimum). Some telescope images might be
4 MBs in size minimum. We have a project at Ames called MIDAS for
LANDSAT imagery using Xenix,
SUN motherboards (68K) and Raster Tech frame buffers only costing us
$50K, but we are seeking $20K. [They use the 80MB Fujitsu disk.] This is
an inhouse effort, not a product. I am aware of a similar experiment
at TRW in Redondo Beach, CA and an NIH effort. Our general opinion
was that nothing was out there yet, and that even VAX780s would be on the
slow side. They cannot afford a Cray or Cyber. Any other suggestions
or people with similar interests would be interested. I will not
repost.
--eugene miya
NASA Ames Research Center
Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
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