coert@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl (Coert J. Vonk) (03/08/91)
Using the PC Transputer products
TMB16DVR.SYS, S705A, CHECK.EXE
and ISERVER.EXE
Coert J. Vonk
e-mail: C_Vonk@pttrnl
Revision 1.1(ea)
``During the past months I experienced some
problems in using the transputer tools. These
problems twisted my arm so far, I decided to
fight them off during the weekends. During this
wrestling I detected flaws in Transtech's TMB16
device driver r1.0 and Inmos' CHECK v2.52. This
extended abstract describes the patches for
CHECK I came up with.''
Inmos' transputer network checker CHECK version 2.53 is available at
ARCHIVE-SERVER@INMOS.COM. In its original distribution it gives no
support to device drivers. Luckywise, Inmos made the sources
available of both CHECK and the ISERVER. ISERVER version 1.42f
supports device drivers by the use of the B008LINK.C module. I
merged this module it into the CHECK program making it to support
device drivers, too (CHECK `patch' 1).
Because of filtering on the motherboards the subsystem should be left
of at least 5 milliseconds after de-asserting SUBSYSTEM_RESET [TRANST]
(CHECK patch 2).
In my view, one of the most powerful option of CHECK is matching a map
file to the actual transputer network. This worked very unreliable due
to uninitialized `transputer' variable in main() (CHECK patch 3).
Sincerely,
Coert J. Vonk
Voice: +31 1640 34496
Fax: +31 1640 45569 (attn: Coert)
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[TRANST] Transtech {\small TMB16}, 10 Slot PC Transputer Motherboard User Guide
(Preliminary, TMB016MAN1090). Transtech Devices Ltd., UK. 1990.
BTW: Patches are available upon e-mail request. These patches are compatible
to Larry Wall's patch utility (v1.2).