page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (08/24/87)
pbrody@udenva.UUCP (Paul Brody ) wrote: >It would be developed in England by Perihelios PLC, and the OS will be called >Helios, and will be written by Tim King. [Snicker snicker] Tim King (it's Perihelion, not ..lios) used to be with MetaComCo ... Can you say AmigaDOS? I knew you could. If Helios (Helion?) is is as brain-damaged as AmigsDOS, I feel sorry for Atari. ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}
dclemans@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Dave Clemans) (08/25/87)
I rather doubt that the Transputer represents an official Atari effort. Instead, this is probably the transputer add-on that Kuma in England announced over a year ago for the ST. When it was announced it had essentially no software; it was described basically as a "toy" that universities/etc. could get to experiment with parallel processing. Now someone may have just decided to do some real software for it. dgc
miner@dino.UUCP (10/02/87)
In article dclemans@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Dave Clemans) writes: >I rather doubt that the Transputer represents an official Atari effort. >Instead, this is probably the transputer add-on that Kuma in England >announced over a year ago for the ST. There already are transputer cards for the Amiga 2000. PC based cards talking to a bridge board on the brain-dead side of the 2000. It's not as nice as having them on the Amiga bus but with the dual ported RAM on the bridge board you could set up a little development environment. All using currently available hardware and software + glue :-) -- Rich miner@ulowell.edu 617/452-5000x2693 ULowell CPE Imaging Research Lab