andrewn@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew D Nimmo) (11/05/90)
Would anyone care to expand on Tektronix and the M88K, in particular, the use of their M88K coprocessor board in a Macintosh II, running the CAChe (Computer Aided Chemistry) sofware. Will this continue to be a supported product? Any info appreciated. Andrew D. Nimmo
andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) (11/07/90)
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"Would anyone care to expand on Tektronix and the M88K, in
particular, the use of their M88K coprocessor board in a
Macintosh II, running the CAChe (Computer Aided Chemistry)
sofware. Will this continue to be a supported product?"
The termination of Tektronix' 88k-based workstation effort does not
effect the CAChe program, or other Tek 88k projects such as DAS
support.
As far as I can tell from inside the company, CAChe looks like it will
be allowed to prosper for the forseeable future.
-=- Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]wishart@bnl.gov (Jim Wishart) (11/07/90)
In article <3739@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andrewn@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew D Nimmo) writes: > Would anyone care to expand on Tektronix and the M88K, in particular, > the use of their M88K coprocessor board in a Macintosh II, running the > CAChe (Computer Aided Chemistry) sofware. Will this continue to be a > supported product? Any info appreciated. It was demonstrated here last week. Is is very impressive, albeit quite expensive. They say that a new version will be released early next year. The salesperson told us that the driving force behind this product is the display processing technology and the need to find applications for it, such as computational chemistry and molecular modeling. The 3D display is very convincing. Jim Wishart wishart@bnl.gov Chemistry Department Brookhaven National Laboratory,Upton, NY 11973
larrym@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Larry Morandi) (11/07/90)
In article <3739@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andrewn@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew D Nimmo) writes: >Would anyone care to expand on Tektronix and the M88K, in particular, >the use of their M88K coprocessor board in a Macintosh II, running the >CAChe (Computer Aided Chemistry) sofware. Will this continue to be a >supported product? Any info appreciated. > >Andrew D. Nimmo I suspect the Tek CAChe group will respond separately, but the simple answer is that the cancellation of the workstation product lines had no effect on either the CAChe group and products or the RP88 group and products (RP88 is the name of the family of coprocessor products, which are available independent of the Computer Aided Chemistry products). In fact, we are just preparing our announcement of a 33MHz product and a very significant reduction in prices. (Quick plug -- prices now range from $4.5k to $11k, speeds from 16MHz to 33 MHz, and the 33MHz board shows 70k Dhrystones1.1, 63k Dhrystones2.1 and 32.3M Whetstones. Contact us if you need more info on the RP88 products, prices or other benchmarks. -- End of plug) Thank you very much, Larry Morandi RP88 E-Mail: advance@crl.labs.tek.com RP88 Phone: 503-627-7844 E-Mail: larrym@sail.labs.tek.com AppleLink: AdvTech US Mail: Larry Morandi, Advance Technologies, Tektronix, Inc. Box 500 MS 50-380, Beaverton OR 97077 Phone: 503-627-6002
cole@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Samuel Cole) (11/09/90)
In article <3739@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andrewn@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew D Nimmo) writes: >Would anyone care to expand on Tektronix and the M88K, in particular, >the use of their M88K coprocessor board in a Macintosh II, running the >CAChe (Computer Aided Chemistry) sofware. Will this continue to be a >supported product? Any info appreciated. > >Andrew D. Nimmo To reiterate what others have already posted to this list, the cancellation of the workstation product line does not affect the CAChe Group or the Advance Technologies Group that produces the RP88 co-processor for the Macintosh II. CAChe is doing extremely well, with a product that is very competetive (prices range from $12K to 50K). CAChe molecular modeling worksystems can use one or more of the 33, 25, or 20 MHz RP88K co-processors. Sam Cole (503)627-2308 CAChe Group, Tektronix Inc. cole@sail.labs.tek.com P.O. Box 500, Mail Station 13-400 Beaverton, OR 97077