Chorus, Human Devices

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From: John F. Mansfield
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1989 23:29

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Hello there, has anyone seen or heard anything about the Chorus
compute server for the Macintosh?  I saw it mentioned in MacWeek and
was intrigued.  It is apparently between 1 and 16 Transputers in a
MacII sized box with Appletalk and/or Ethertalk connection, a 20 meg
caching drive, network processor and capability of running code
written under a modified MPW environment.  It was supposed to supposed
to support C, Pascal and Fortran. Speed was supposed to be between an
Alliant FX/1 and a Cray X/MP-48 for the 16 processor version. The
catch is that that was $75000!  

Now what I want to know is, has anyone seen the beast? Does it work?
Can it be easily programmed (sic)? I sent for the literature, but am
suspicious of anything that doesnt have a picture of the product in
the brochure.  Is it real or is it...?

Please reply to me by email, thanks.

John Mansfield
North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory 2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor,
Michigan 48109-2143. 313-936-3352
Internet: jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu or john_mansfield.um.cc.umich.edu

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From: jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu.engin.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield)
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Subject: Chorus, Human Devices
Keywords: Parallel Processing, Transputers, T800, RISC
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Date: 24 Feb 89 23:29:00 GMT
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