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Re: shared memory

#2138
From: Bill O
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1988 02:09
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In article <8806301528.AA01029@snowwhite.com> andy@snowwhite.UUCP (Andy Pfiffer) writes:
> +---- Douin Jean Michel in "Subject: shared memory" - Fri Jun 3  @ 3:17pm
> |    Does anybody know about using shared bus memory 
> |    with transputer?
>I met an Australian fellow at the recent Boston Supercomputer Show and the
>...
>I *believe* he said that there was a sum total of about 40 MB
>of total shared memory, scattered about the machine.
>Andy Pfiffer			  Topologix, Inc. (303) 421-7700
                                  ***************

I had heard that Topologix had plans for a shared-memory transputer
board, (that is, the transputers sharing memory with each other, not
just the host). Is this 

1) true
2) hogwash
3) not necessarily either of the above?

Has anyone else heard this rumor (fact?)?

Bill O'Farrell, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University
(billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu)
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From: billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Bill O)
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Subject: Re: shared memory
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Date: 15 Jul 88 02:09:10 GMT
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