mrd@SUN.MCS.CLARKSON.EDU ("Michael R. DeCorte") (11/16/87)
>The ABAQ includes 3 "links", which are 10-megabit-per-second serial >interfaces for talking to off-board transputers. Should I read this a yet another version of tcp, nfs and ftp but made by atari to be incompatible with all other manufatures? >Jack Lang, in his talk at the Atari press conference at Comdex, supposed a >setup where workers each had their own transputer system on their desks, >with all of them linked together and linked to a separate box containing >many transputers. As an application's need for processing power increased, >it could pull more transputers in. An intriguing concept -- throw the >computer into high gear. Atari makes parallel computers and a presume an operating sytem that will allow multi-tasking and multi-processors with a relitivly new and unkown chip, hmmm. Interesting coming from a manufacturer that can not make a single user single taking os with a well known and popular chip. Sounds like vapor-ware to me. Michael DeCorte mrd@clutx.clarkson.edu mrd@clutx.bitnet
greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks) (11/20/87)
>>The ABAQ includes 3 "links", which are 10-megabit-per-second serial >>interfaces for talking to off-board transputers. > >Should I read this as yet another version of tcp, nfs and ftp but >made by atari to be incompatible with all other manufatures? No, you should read it as three transputer connections. In other words, they are `serial' buses. >Atari makes parallel computers and a presume an operating sytem that >will allow multi-tasking and multi-processors with a relitivly new and >unkown chip, hmmm. Interesting coming from a manufacturer that can >not make a single user single taking os with a well known and popular >chip. Sounds like vapor-ware to me. Atari did not write GEM - Digital Research did. Blame DR. The original article also mentions that the transputer software is from someone other than Atari. Sounds interesting to me! I hope it flys. -- Greg Franks XIOS Systems Corporation, 1600 Carling Avenue, (613) 725-5411 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 8R8 utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg "There's so much to sea in Nova Scotia"