K312240@AEARN.BITNET (Klaus Kusche) (10/28/89)
Dear Mailing List: 1.) About the new generation of transputers: I heard something about it this week at the meeting of the German Transputer User Group by an Inmos rep., although he didn't give any useful details. The good news: It will include many "conventional goodies" for those who want to run conventional software and operating systems. It will include an improved link protocol including automatic routing hardware. Onchip RAM may be used as such (if there is no ext RAM) or as a true cache of offchip RAM. The bad news: Don't expect compatibility. It will take 18 months to materialize (at best!!!). The shorttime news is the T400 (20$ stripped-down T414 with 2 links only) and the T805 (T800 replacement including all the new T425 and T801 features). 2.) For those not happy with the Compiler writer's guide: There is a transputer instruction set docu written by Colin Plumb (who did a lot of assembler hacks). I've a copy which I could email to the interested (however, the document is already quite old). To Colin: There seems to be urgent need for a 'second edition'. Greetings ************************************************************************ * Klaus Kusche * * Research Institute for Symbolic Computation * * Johannes Kepler University Tel: +43 7236 3231 67 * * A-4040 Linz Telex: (Austria) 22323 uni li a * * Austria (Europe) Fax: +43 7236 3231 30 * * * * Bitnet: K312240@AEARN * * Arpa/CS/Internet: K312240%AEARN.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU * * UUCP: mcvax!aearn.bitnet!K312240 * * Janet: K312240@earn.aearn (perhaps) * ************************************************************************