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I can't say I really believe this sort of thing, but since Lindsay Patten
asks (in article <1990Oct2.204634.16609@watserv1.waterloo.edu>), at the York
OUG meeting the Inmos stand was (at least at the beginning of the meeting)
knee deep in uninformative eight-page leaflets called the H1 transputer
`product preview'.  It really is pretty uninformative, but I can safely assume
that it isn't covered by any pledges in blood that I may have made to anyone.
The cover says:

        Instruction set compatible with the IMS T805
        [ that seems to mean `binary compatible' and the compatibility mode
          running is on a per-process basis
        ]
        Pipelined superscalar micro-architecture
        Workspace cache
        4Gbyte physical address space
        16Kbyte instruction and data cache
        >150MIPS peak
        >60MIPS sustained
        >20MFLOPs peak
        >10MFLOPs sustained
        Sub-microsecond interrupt response
        [ this may be code for `more register banks for fast swaps' ]
        Per process error handling
        Enhanced support for pre-emptive schedulers
        [ or perhaps that is the line that is code for `more register banks' ]
        Memory protection and address translation
        Virtual channels
        Support for message routing
        80Mbytes/s total bi-directional link bandwidth
        [ there are four links, four events, and two control links
          shown on the block diagram alongside 
        ]
        Separate control system
        Single 5MHz clock input
        50MHz internal clock
        Single +5+/-5% power supply

The rest of the document (everything says `preliminary' and `we don't promise
anything', and is dated September 1990) is, I am told, largely unintelligble
unless you already know what it means.  Oh, I exaggerate.  I'm just trying to
get out of typing it all in.  I guess the only other thing to say is that all
of the links (even the control system links) are of the four-wire style that is
being used for the H series communications.  There is a C100 link converter
which is meant to be out before the H series transputers themselves.

They weren't promising anything.  Neither am I; errors and imaginings excepted.
                                                                             g