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In article <8808161709.AA20575@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU>, K312240@AEARN.BITNET (Klaus Kusche) writes:
> 
> There was a question regarding transputer boards for IBM PS/2
> (MicroChannel) systems on this list a few weeks ago. I met somebody of
> the IBM lab Yorktown heights two weeks ago (I was asked not to give his
> name) who said that a US company doing PC boards definitely will have a
> PS/2 board *really soon now*.
> 
> Hope that helps and causes the corresponding company to speak up on this
> list!

Well, I don't think we're the mystery company, but the company I work 
for -- Nth Graphics, Ltd. -- is introducing a single-transputer (T414 
default) board in September.  The board is intended as a graphics board:

    *  1/2 Meg frame buffer (4 bits deep)
    *  Custom VLSI for fast lines and polygons
    *  Generates its own video output
    *  2 Meg program memory

In early 1989 we'll have a 2-transputer PS/2 graphics board:

   1 T800 modelling chip (for databases, transforms, modelling, etc.)
      -- with 2 Meg program memory

   1 T414 rendering chip
      -- 1 Meg frame buffer (8 bits deep)
      -- custom VLSI for fast lines & polys

Plus an extension board sometime this fall to expand program and
frame buffer memory.
 
> What's the most important aspect to me: Will the host interface on that
> PS/2 board be faster (DMA!) than the damned software polling solution on
> all the PC boards now???

We won't support DMA on the single-transputer board.  We probably will on
the 1Q '89 two-transputer board.

This is all unofficial info.  Contact Fred Hudson at +1 512 832 1944 for
the real stuff.

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