braner@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
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());
FGOMEZ@estec.BITNET (07/29/89)
From: (F. Gomez) Subject: Atari Workstation There is an Atari Workstation in the market. We are evaluating it at the moment for Man Machine Interface Space Applications. It runs the Helios Operating System and XWindows on top. Although the version we have got has only 1 T800, it has room for 4 of them It offers also a UNIX Run-Time Library. The documentation is rather poor (typical of first releases). F.Gomez-Molinero European Space Agency ESTEC. FGOMEZ@ESTEC.BITNET