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in Article 79 of comp.sys.transputer:
jan@hermes.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Jan Vorbrueggen)
writes:

   > but we'd still like to get/buy a version of isim running on a
   > DECstation. Is such a thing available ...

   NO

> Pray, why not? (see below)

There is little interest from our customer base in the DECstation (at least
in context of other development hosts), for the benefit of our customers
we focus attention on their preferred host platforms.

> __FLAME ON__
> ... rest deleted

Universities do great work at the grass roots level of using and developing
newer technologies, however, proliferation of a technology is not done by 
Universities but through volume design ins at major OEMs. My own experience 
(and this comes from the systems company I worked for before joining INMOS) 
is that the basics taught at Universities are valued, however the choice of 
one technology over another often relates more to commecial issues than 
technical issues (e.g. if companies x,y,z are using it we should). Intels 
fortunes now are highly focused on the PC market and volumes came from a major 
design in at IBM. Do Intel run simulators or emulators on anything other than 
Intel processors, do Sun have a SPARC simulator that runs on HP PA or 
DECstation architectures?

It would be awfully good for Ford to increase popularity by giving cars to
University students and commercially selling all their car models for < 10$ 
but I don't expect them to commit commecial suicide in doing this.

regards,

Steve 
(living and working in the real world)

These opinions are my own and do not reflect INMOS policy.

Steve Doyle, Software Marketing, INMOS Ltd   | Tel +44 454 616616
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