ken@turtlevax.uucp (Ken Turkowski) (08/08/85)
SIGGRAPH debuted the MEiKO Computing Surface, an interconnection of hundreds
of transputers calculating hidden surface pictures. Their breif literature
boasts 1,437,000,002 instructions per second, at a cost of $250.00/MIP.
It is built on a "40-slot extended double Eurocard with proprietary point-to-
point backplane. 100 ohm balanced differential environment engineered for link
distribution at 20 Mbits/sec." The compute boards consist of "4 off [sic] 16 or
[sic] 32 bit processors each with 48K bytes SRAM."
Meiko, Inc.; #205 2527 N. Carson Street; Carson City, Nevada 89701
(702) 883-2622
Meiko Ltd.; Southgate; Bristol BS1 2NT
(0272) 277332
[also a Japanese address was given, but my terminal doesn't have Katakana,
much less Kanji. A number (telephone?) given was 03-435-4556.]
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