traian@imag.imag.fr (Traian MUNTEAN) (10/26/88)
Part of a research project at the Swiss Federal Institut of Technology ETH
Zurich has produced a transputer board for Mac II (this is to be added to
the list of existing products from Levco or Parsytec for instance)
Some of the feature of this board are quite original and interesting and for
this reason they shall be mentioned here with no commercial purpose.
Hardware: two boards (Master and Optional board) occupy two NuBus slots.
- compatibility with BOO4 from Inmos familly for the use of standard
compilers and development systems from Inmos
- fast interfaces as two port RAM (32kx32) to garantee the througput
between the T and the NuBus and four fiber optic links (this allows to
connect several hosts over a longer distance.
- flexible size of the T external memory.
Software: -MacTDS server completely implemented in MPW-Pascal to allow any
any extensions.
-User-server interface fully implemented
-MacII desktop interface to the TDS with some extensions to the
server
N.B. Please do not contact me for any commercial aspects.
(Ergonomics in Zurich has announced this product)
Traian MUNTEAN IMAG - Laboratoire de Genie Informatique de Grenoble
Campus, BP. 53X
38041 GRENOBLE - France (tel. ..-33-76514864)
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