saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) (03/12/91)
I wonder if Atari might have accidentally grabbed a jump on the rest of the
industry with the ATW (which they now seem to be wishing would go away
anyhow). Multiple-instruction-stream-multiple-data-stream concepts (like
the X model of separating the display engine and compute engine, or the
hardware model of object-oriented programming) seem to be coming to get us.
The ATW seems to handle that kind of thing just great. And the engineering
shakedown is already done. Wouldn't it be nice.......(and if you assume
that development is already amortized, what could they be sold for in the
mass market)?
Steve saj@chinet.chi.il.usvsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) (03/13/91)
In article <1991Mar11.224002.12660@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes: >I wonder if Atari might have accidentally grabbed a jump on the rest of the >industry with the ATW... I heard a rumor that the reason Inmos backed out of their Colorado Springs production facility, which was to be a source of Transputers for Atari and others, is that DOD wouldn't let them re-export Transputers to UK! Anybody know if there's any truth to this? -- vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder vsnyder@jato.uucp