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Trillium Update:

sed -e "s/Trillium/Trollius/"

Trillium is a trademark of a software company and we therefore
had no choice but to change the name.  We settled on another
New York State protected wildflower called Trollius, our new
official name.  If this is confusing, "the NYS wildflower OS"
will get the meaning across.

The focus of the project has changed considerably since the days
of trying to build a suitable OS for the FPS T-Series.  Fortunately,
one of the major project goals was portability.  We are currently
working with vendors and universities who are in need of transputer
programming and development environments.  Trollius has been ported
to the NiCHE NT1000 platform.  The whole job took ten days, mostly
due to Trollius abstraction and portability but also due to an
existing NiCHE device driver and a straight forward hardware design.
Feel free to email questions to me about the NiCHE product.

A member of the original Trillium Diving Team, Andrew K. Pfiffer
is hard at work at Topologix, his new home, making the Pentasoft
tools sing T212 tunes and porting Trollius to the Topologix hardware.

Back at Cornell, a project will be starting shortly to put Trollius
on IBM Watson Research's Victor machine.  The details are an IBM RT
running Mach and up 256 transputers.

Another project will be starting at Cornell to demonstrate Trollius
to scientists on NiCHE/Topologix/IBM/anybody else's hardware.
Once an application is working, it works on all machines.
We will help strategic scientific codes get implemented under Trollius
and then let the user decide what is the best hardware to buy
from first hand experience.

Naturally, we would like to add to the list of "anybody else".
Unix ports are easiest right now, but VMS and OS/2 are distinct
possibilities.  Cornell is licensing Trollius to industrial and
academic institutions.  You also need a Pentasoft license to have
Trollius.

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Greg Burns					gdburns@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
Cornell Theory Center / Cornell U.		cornell!batcomputer!gdburns
						(607) 255-8686
"...that's the way a Transputer works, right?"  Trillium Diving Team