Transputers and Helios

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2 total messages Started by Patrick Van Renterghem / Transpu... Tue, 20 Dec 1988 22:15

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Author: Patrick Van Renterghem / Transpu...
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1988 22:15

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In response to

> From: Cheol Kim <oodis01!uplherc!esunix!ckim@TIS.LLNL.GOV>
> Organization: Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, Utah

Is Evans and Sutherland finally thinking about using transputers ?

>>  1) What is a transputer?

It is a wonderful thing, especially when you have lots of them.

>>  2) To what OS is helios most similar?

>       Following is taken from someone else's message.  Pardon me.

It's nothing, go ahead.

>         * Helios: (Perihelion Software Ltd.)
> ... stuff deleted ...
> Helios is already being used for a wide variety of transputer-based
> applications:  for embedded  systems,  for  PC  and  other  plug-in
> boards,  for workstations and for transputer-based computer systems.

Add to this: the current version contains a lot of bugs, some systematic and
some stochastic. We are hoping to see a new release of Helios real soon. This
looks promising, but don't look to closely at it (or it crashes !).

> Patrick Van Renterghem, Seminar Coordinator "Transputers for Ind. Appl."

And Transputers for Industrial Applications II.

Patrick

Re: Transputers and Helios

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Author: Roy Forsstrom
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1988 17:12

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Dick Pountain wrote an article for Byte magazine in June of 1988 about
Helios and the Atari Abaq project. The article is called "A Personal
Transputer" and is on page 303. I recommend the article for anyone interested
in an easy to find description of Helios.

Has anyone seen the Atari Abaq yet? The article suggested a Sept. 1988 
release date.

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