rob@darkstar.UUCP (Rob Savoye) (06/16/89)
I originally posted this in April 1988, but it still mostly applies.
This product does not exist as something that can be bought as an end-user.
Recently I have been contacted about purchasing the source, cause the
companies involved have all gone under.
At the UNIX expo last fall I talked to the engineer that did the UNIX port fo
Microport. It was done by Renishaw Controls, a British process-controls
company ( among other things ). They originally used PC's running Microport
V/AT as a master station for industrial controllers and such. Since the AT
was too slow and they're around the corner from INMOS, they ported UNIX to a
B004 first, then a B008. This gave them almost real-time speed from UNIX
while allowing them a good base to port their code from the AT to the B008.
They also wrote or bought (I think they wrote it) the C compiler that Meiko
uses. Each transputer runs as a client to a main UNIX "host" rather than a
distributed kernel approach. It has full access to the PC's graphics at quite
good speeds. As of last year they hadn't ported any of UNIX's development
tools to the B008 but I imagine that wouldn't be too difficult. All in all,
it looked like a nice product, but I'd rather use Trollius.
Rob Savoye
Topologix, Inc.
4860 Ward Rd.
Denver, CO 80033
(303) 421-7700
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