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Dear Mailing List!
 
>   From:       IN%"K312240%bitnet.aearn@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU"
>   Subj:       CONPAR '88 product news
 
>   Transtech:
>   ----------
 
>   They had the widest and nicest selection of PC boards, among others:
>   * 17 T's with no ext. RAM on one board.
 
That is actually Quintek's Fast17
 
>   * 9 T's with 1MB each, plus C004, on one board.
 
and their Fast9
 
>   * A graphics board (with not much software, sorry).
 
But B007 compatible
 
>   * Niche products for Suns (software looks impressive, nicely integrated in
>   SunOS, they networked it with the transputers on the Niche machine in
>   the next room).
 
The environment is called PRE and is indeed rather impressive (okay, we
haven't seen Topologix not Cogent yet)
 
>   Inmos:
>   ------
 
>   Just showed the flight simulator.
 
Same thing in So'ton, but they promised to bring lots of technical notes to
Antwerp.
 
>   SOFTWARE:
>   =========
 
>   There was no new software running, but lots of rumors:
>   * Ada (Meiko, Inmos)
 
Peter Cavill told us that this will become available in '89, it is actually
Inmos and Alsys.
 
>   * Lisp (Parsys (still confidential) and some others)
 
There are PD versions of XLisp and Little Smalltalk available from the National
Transputer Support Centre in Sheffield
 
>   * Definicon will offer CUBIX and EXPRESS (Operating system kernels and
>   I/O & message passing libraries based on Caltec Hypercube developments,
>   compatible with Cros III).
 
Express and Cubix are products of ParaSoft, a US company, that can be
reached via john salmon, johns@tybalt.caltech.edu.
 
>   AI Limited:
>   -----------
 
>   They will offer a Prolog-like environment for AI and symbolic
>   computation SW development, including a new language, on a wide range of
>   machines (Transputer systems, intel Hypercubes, ...) in 1Q89.
 
Who/Where is AI Ltd. ?
 
>   Ask for more details, tell me if I missed something or said something
>   wrong!
 
Idem dito.
 
See you in Antwerp,
 
Patrick