[comp.sys.acorn] Rumours about ARM4 & ARM5....

dhmyrdal@solan.unit.no (Dag H}kon Myrdal) (01/11/91)

In article <1589@tharr.UUCP>, gtoal@tharr.UUCP (Graham Toal) writes:

|> PS Obligatory unsubstantiated rumour: has anyone else heard talk of putting
|> transputer-like links on the arm for multi-processor systems?
|> -- 

I've heard that the ARM4 will have the FPA on-chip and transputer-like
links (possibly also HW links for desktop "messages" between
applications...)
And.... the ARM5 will (this is also just a rumour) be four (!) ARM4's
on a single chip....

This, I heard that Acorn worked on during last summer.... What ARM LTD
does is another matter....

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