burton@unixg.ubc.ca (Steve Cumming, net.leftist) (03/19/91)
In "Cellular Automata Machines", Margoulis and I can't recall who, 1985, a hardware implementation of a CAM for PC's, based on FORTH is described. It is claimed that the thing is available from an outfit called "Systems Concepts" in San Francisco. I can't track them down. Has anyone out there more up to date info? I want one of these to test out some ideas about integrating simulation models of ecological processes with GIS.... Steve C. -- #include "../h/disclaimer.h" /* I am not really Phil Burton, btw. */ burton@unixg.ubc.ca ... and if dinosaurs "became" birds Steve Cumming, a.k.a. what will we become? - Anselm Hollow.
streeter@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Kenneth B. Streeter) (03/19/91)
In article <1991Mar18.165506.15135@unixg.ubc.ca> burton@unixg.ubc.ca (Steve Cumming, net.leftist) writes: >In "Cellular Automata Machines", Margoulis and I can't recall who, >1985, a hardware implementation of a CAM for PC's, based on FORTH >is described. It is claimed that the thing is available from >an outfit called "Systems Concepts" in San Francisco. >I can't track them down. Has anyone out there more up to date >info? The text, "Cellular Automata Machines," is by T. Toffoli and N. Margolus. It is published by the MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142. The original hardware implementation of a CAM for the PC was available from Systems Concepts in San Francisco. This machine was known as CAM-6. Systems Concepts is producing them only on a highly irregular basis at this time. An new upgraded version, backwards-compatible with CAM-6, is the CAM-PC now available from Automatrix, Inc. For further information about the CAM-PC, you can contact the Chief Engineer for the CAM-PC, Bob Tater, at automtrx!campc@crdgw1.ge.com Additionally, we here at MIT (I am a member of the research group with Toffoli & Margolus) are now working on CAM-8, a CAM hardware implementation that uses a Sun SPARCstation as a primary host. The CAM-8 hardware provides very significant capability and performance enhancements over either CAM-6 or the CAM-PC. The CAM-8 prototypes are expected to be completed by the end of August. For more information on CAM-8, feel free to contact me at the addresses below. -- Kenneth B. Streeter | ARPA: streeter@im.lcs.mit.edu MIT LCS, Room NE43-350 | UUCP: ...!uunet!im.lcs.mit.edu!streeter 545 Technology Square | (617) 253-2614 (work) Cambridge, MA 02139 | (617) 225-2249 (home)