geraint@prg.oxford.ac.UK (Geraint Jones) (04/09/88)
Someone asked about T801 transputers; at the occam User Group's UK meeting in Sheffield at the end of last month, Chris Followell outlined INMOS' future hardware plans. Modulo my mistakes what he said was: T800E 25MHz T800 in fourth quarter 1988 T801 (-20/25/30 Mhz, 10 and 20 M bits/sec links) T800 but with 2 cycle non multiplexed external memory interface so in a huge 100(-ish) pin grid array package in fourth quarter 1988 T222 16-bit transputer (remember the T212?) but with 4kbytes of on-chip store, and faster links. He may have said that INMOS were going to stop making slow links, but since I didn't write it down, I won't swear to it. `May 1988' T425 re-engineered T4xx made by leaving the FPU off the T800 fourth quarter 1988 I seem to remember a date for a 30MHz T800, but I wouldn't swear to that either. Beware `fourth quarter 1988', which seems to mean fourth quarter of the financial year, so is in 1989. There was a very convincing sales pitch for INMOS `transputer modules', lumps of store and processors on standard-pin boards, and a range of socket boards equipped with link-switches and weeny transputers controlling those switches. gj