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I am interested in information about any transputer development
environments for Sun workstations and will provide a summary of the
information I receive to the net.

We will be offering an upper-level, undergraduate course in Parallel
Computing Systems next semester and we are looking to purchase a
transputer kit to be installed within a Sparc II workstation with
supporting software.  We will be working within a small budget
($8,000-10,000) this year but plan to expand the system in future
years.

Our immediate concern is to obtain a system that is suitable for
demonstating the rewards/possibilities/limitations of parallel
implementations to our undergraduate students and secondly to be used 
in faculty research as well.  Versatility and perhaps, a greater number
of less powerful/less expensive processors would be more suitable than
a system with fewer more powerful processors.  In future years, we
will look to expand the computational power of the system.

Any recommendations or information to get us looking in the right
directions would be appreciated including:

	- US distributors (phone/addresses/email) of transputer
		systems.
	- suggestted configurations within our budget that match our
		goals.
	- materials to be used in our future course.

Thanks in advance.

-- Mark
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Professor Mark A. Friedman		 mark.friedman@trincoll.edu
Engineering and Computer Science	 (or friedman@starbase.trincoll.edu)
Trinity College				 Phone: (203) 297-2519
Hartford, Connecticut   06106		 Fax: (203) 297-2569