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Article #2357Re: VME boards (was Re: Niche is Dead?)
From: Moshe Braner
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1988 22:00
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1988 22:00
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[] If what you want is transputers hooked onto a Unix system, then an alternative to VME is the Apollo 3x00 series workstations. They have IBM-PC compatible slots. Since it would be Unix rather than MS-DOS, one would need to write a Unix device driver to support I/O to/from the board(s) in the multi-tasking environment. (If anybody has done that for the Apollo I'd like to hear about it!) In that context it would help a lot if the transputer board would support interrupts and DMA. As far as I know, Microway and Definicon do not, but the CSA boards do. The Inmos B008 does, but the B004 does not. I'm not sure about Parsytec. Any others? - Moshe Braner PS: I do hope Niche is revived!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!braner From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: VME boards (was Re: Niche is Dead?) Summary: Apollo has AT slots... Keywords: vme Message-ID: <6952@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 6 Dec 88 22:00:54 GMT References: <7521.8811221012@pyr.swan.ac.uk> <3757@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <5622@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <282@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <5628@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 16