wolf@pyr.gatech.EDU ( Thomas Wolf) (10/09/88)
Well, (using Mr Reagan's favorite expression)
I sure hope that Atari will bring out this Transputer. Descriptions of it
have been floating around Usenet (and bbs') for about a year now. The
previous message mentioned it being released in Britain. Will it be available
in the US any time soon?
--
Thomas Wolf
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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ARPA: wolf@pyr.gatech.edubraner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) (10/10/88)
[] A while ago I read about a transputer box that plugs into a plain Atari ST. Can one still get it? With a t800 (rather than a t414)? Price? Alternatively, has anybody tried to interface an Inmos link adaptor chip to the ST parallel port or DMA port? Would that be too hard to home-build? (One could buy a PClone, or a chassis for one anyway, solely as a box with power that an inexpensive transputer board can be plugged into!) - Moshe Braner
BobR@cup.portal.com (10/13/88)
Thomas Wolf asks: >I sure hope that Atari will bring out this Transputer. Descriptions of it >have been floating around Usenet (and bbs') for about a year now. The >previous message mentioned it being released in Britain. Will it be availabl >in the US any time soon? The "Atari WorkStation" (the new name, since ABAQ is already in use) is expected to be available for shipping in England by the end of this year. The "Under $5000" workstation will now cost $8500 (U.S.) with one transputer, with optional cards of four more transputers available. The operating system on the "AWS" will be Helios... Neil Harris explained that the transputer based workstation will be sold exclusively in England first because they designed the transputer chip, and are most familiar with it. (I guess he means that the 68000 chip in the ST was designed in Germany, and that they're most familiar with it, too..) BobR
hafer@infbs (Udo Hafermann) (10/13/88)
A firm which builds transputer systems and interfaces to the Atari ST (and IBM-PC) is TransferTech GbR Goslarsche Str. 64 D-3300 Braunschweig W. Germany E.g. they have a tranputer-based Server-Network for the ST series. Anyone interested may e-mail me for details. Bitnet preferred: hafer at dbsinf6
hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) (10/15/88)
In article <6507@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) writes: >[] > >A while ago I read about a transputer box that plugs into a plain Atari ST. >Can one still get it? With a t800 (rather than a t414)? Price? > >Alternatively, has anybody tried to interface an Inmos link adaptor chip >to the ST parallel port or DMA port? Would that be too hard to home-build? Well, you asked for it. A german magazine (called c't) published scamatics/desciptio/software for a board called TEK4/8. This is a B004-compatible plug in for the PC or AT. It runs the INMOS-Occam-Compiler as well as the popular C- or FORTRAN-Compilers. It can be equipped with a T414 or T800 (15 or 20 MHz) and up to 2 Megabytes of RAM (DRAM 41256 or the like). In another article they showed a board that plugs to the ROM port and gives you an ECB-Slot (Europa-Card-BUS, an Z80-Bussystem), a PC-Slot (or more than one if you use a passive backplane) and up to 1 Megabyte ROM (using bank switching of 64k blocks). A little later they made software availeble to plug the TEK4/8 (or the B004) to the "PC-Slot" and run the Inmos OCS (Occam Compiler System). If You are interested in a copy of the articles, send IRCs and an envelope with your adress to the Adress below. I've got permission to send you a copy... (even a translation to my kind of "English" :-) The drawback is the price: the universal interface is DM 228 (assembled and tested, komplete part kit is DM 169). The TEK4/8 basic set (empty card, all needed PALs, ST server software for the universal interface, Inmos OCS, less RAM, Transputer, Link adaptor..) is DM 499. (one buck is about DM 1,82 today). all prices plus shipping and customs, of course. I love the TEK. We use it at TUB (Technical University Berlin). The ST interface is almost as fast as real DMA. I heard about the universal interface used for a harddisk controller... I'm not related to the Heise Verlag (publisher of c't) in any way but as a really satisfied subscrber and customer. hase -- Hartmut Semken, Lupsteiner Weg 67, 1000 Berlin 37 hase@netmbx.UUCP If there is something more important than my ego, I want it caught and shot, NOW! (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
walkerb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Brian Walker) (10/18/88)
In article <6507@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) writes: >A while ago I read about a transputer box that plugs into a plain Atari ST. >Can one still get it? With a t800 (rather than a t414)? Price? > >Alternatively, has anybody tried to interface an Inmos link adaptor chip >to the ST parallel port or DMA port? Would that be too hard to home-build? Kuma, a company in Britain with experience in the ST market, at one time produced a traansputer developement system: K-Max. The K-Max module was designed to plug into a 520ST or 1040ST and included developement software. The price was rather steep, compared to other products in the market at the time. I am not certain if Kuma still offers the package. Brian Walker, University of Colorado at Boulder|| printf("Say please:] \n"); walkerb@tramp.colorado.edu=======|| if (say_please(user)) {ncar,nbires,sunybcs}!boulder!tramp!walkerb====|| be_nice(random());
BobR@cup.portal.com (Bob BobR Retelle) (10/18/88)
One small "oops" in my earlier posting... The abbreviation for the new name of the Atari Workstation, the former ABAQ is "ATW" not AWS, as I'd called it... (I guess I fell asleep during the Sam Tramiel conference on CompuServe before he mentioned the new name...) My apologies..! BobR