re: T9000 status

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4 total messages Started by Stephen Doyle Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:06

#631

Author: Stephen Doyle
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:06

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in Article 2466 of inmos.lists.transputer PVR@autoctrl.rug.ac.be
(Patrick Van Renterghem) writes:

>I just hope that ... 'fully integrated'
>means alpha T9 plus VCP. 
>Having lost several design-ins to Texas already, any hick-ups
>could be a real catastrophy for INMOS.

'fully integrated' does mean T9000 + VCP.

Your statement on Texas is inaccurate. It is a credit to the transputer
(and perhaps a reflection on Texas' offerings) that there have not
been design-in losses to Texas. There is still only one real transputer family
and randomly sticking links on a processor does not make it a contender. An 
interpretation of the situation could be that even a (previously) absent 
T9000 is considered better than a real C30/C40.

I will reiterate Roger Shepherds statement:-

>>> Recent progress on the T9000 has been good - a trade paper (Electronics
>>> Times?) reported CORRECTLY that the T9000 alpha silicon has now come
>>> out of fabrication and is being tested.  The first fully integrated T9000
>>> device should enter fab shortly.

regards,

Steve Doyle, Software Marketing, INMOS Ltd   | Tel +44 454 616616
1000 Aztec West                              | 
Almondsbury                                  | UK: steved@inmos.co.uk
Bristol BS12 4SQ, UK                         | US: steved@inmos.com

Re: T9000 status

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Author: Andy Henshaw
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:49

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Steve Doyle writes:

>(and perhaps a reflection on Texas' offerings) that there have not
>been design-in losses to Texas. 

 I think that I am not atypical in thinking that this shortening
of Texas Instruments' name sounds very weird to people here in the
States.  Generally, we refer to them as TI.  Obviously, Texas brings
to mind the state.  Not an insightful message, I know, but traffic is
low in this group anyway.

Andy Henshaw

Re: T9000 status

#634

Author: richard marlon stein
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:00

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In article <24973.9208171506@lion.inmos.co.uk> steved@inmos.co.uk (Stephen Doyle) writes:
>in Article 2466 of inmos.lists.transputer PVR@autoctrl.rug.ac.be
>(Patrick Van Renterghem) writes:
>
>Your statement on Texas is inaccurate. It is a credit to the transputer
>(and perhaps a reflection on Texas' offerings) that there have not
>been design-in losses to Texas. There is still only one real transputer family
>and randomly sticking links on a processor does not make it a contender. An 
>interpretation of the situation could be that even a (previously) absent 
>T9000 is considered better than a real C30/C40.
>
W.J. Dally's (MIT) message driven processor -- the jelly-bean machine
appears to emulate the transputer in several ways: low context switch time
(from multiple register sets), message-passing links (dead-lock free) @
20 Mbytes/sec.  The catch: he has a translate instruction that eases
address translation in a global shared memory structure.  I can't say
that I necessarily support all of the COSMOS software architecture as
a commercially viable PRAM model though.

-- 
Richard Marlon Stein, Internet: rms@well.sf.ca.us
To those who know what is not known;  The Chronicles of Microwave Jim!

Re: T9000 status

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Author: Roger Shepherd
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:10

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In article <66222@hydra.gatech.EDU>, henshaw@emperor.gatech.edu (Andy Henshaw) writes:
|> 
|>  I think that I am not atypical in thinking that this shortening
|> of Texas Instruments' name sounds very weird to people here in the
|> States.  Generally, we refer to them as TI.  

Ah! Around here TI (Tube INvestments) is the name of a company which makes 
all sorts of things to do with metal tubes.  It causes great disappoint
when reading the financial pages of the paper when there is a headline
about ``Major new product from TI'' and it turns out to be a climbing frame
or a bicycle. 

-- 
Roger Shepherd, INMOS Ltd   JANET:    roger@uk.co.inmos 
1000 Aztec West             UUCP:     ukc!inmos!roger or uunet!inmos-c!roger
Almondsbury                 INTERNET: roger@inmos.com
+44 454 616616              ROW:      roger@inmos.com OR roger@inmos.co.uk

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