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Re: Coprocessor Board for Indigo

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From: Vernon Schryver
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 01:06
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In article <1992Dec20.032653.900@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
> 
> How about another Indigo CPU card. I would like to do some REAL time
> data acquisition where I could dedicate one CPU just to data acquisition.
> I know than on a multi-processor machine I can do this but it would
> be nice to do on an Indigo :-)


If your data rates are no more than about 10MByte/sec and you
can use R4000 Indigos (~7MByte/sec for the R3000 Indigo), why not
use the "FDDI bus" to connect the data acquisitio machine to
the other machine?  If your data rate is < 800KByte/sec, why not
use the "ethernet bus"?


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
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Subject: Re: Coprocessor Board for Indigo
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