kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) (07/20/87)
Amigans, For those who have an interest in cellular automata on the Amiga, the following recent book is probably of incredible interest. It is clear and easy, and gives lots of (to me new) examples of automata to implement on Amy. It is Forth oriented, but gives a sufficient orientation to Forth to suffice to understand the examples. Cellular Automata Machines Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Copyright 1987 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Library of Congress: QA267.5 C45T64 1987 511.3 86-33804 ISBN: 0-262-20060-0 For those of you contemplating an Amiga 2000 purchase, the following machine reference from the book will be of interest: CAM-6, a card for the IBM-PC/XT/AT that, for the limited application of cellular automata applications, provides Cray-1 level performance, available from SYSTEM CONCEPTS, San Francisco, CA. (If some kind San Franciscan can provide a complete address and phone number for these folks, the rest of us would appreciate it.) (Cross posted to comp.theory.cell-automata for obvious reasons.) Kent, the man from disg i
dickey@ssc-vax.UUCP (Frederick J Dickey) (07/21/87)
In article <1600@xanth.UUCP>, kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > Amigans, > For those who have an interest in cellular automata on the Amiga, > the following recent book is probably of incredible interest. It > > Cellular Automata Machines > Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus > > For those of you contemplating an Amiga 2000 purchase, the following > machine reference from the book will be of interest: > > CAM-6, a card for the IBM-PC/XT/AT that, for the limited > application of cellular automata applications, provides > Cray-1 level performance, available from SYSTEM CONCEPTS, > San Francisco, CA. > I saw this thing demoed at the AAAI conference in Seattle last week. It looks neat! However, the entire package costs $1500 (+ tax in California). Each cell can have up to 16 states. I don't know whether or not that is enough. The phone number of Systems Concepts is 415-984-1000. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *