🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello,

	This is my first post in this newsgroup, so I'm sorry if it may
by a redundant question.  I would like to develope some software on a mac
with a transputer.  The idea is to do some multi-threaded programming
routines.  When I get it all working I am going to transfer it to my
production box.  This will be something fairly cheap, like an 386 or
something.  The question(s) are these:

1.	Is there any multiprocessor boards for the ibm world that will allow
	me to buy from 1-20(or so) and plug them in and do multi-threaded stuff?
	I am thinking of something like a host of 8086's or 286's.  Nothing
	real expensive but gives me the ability to assign a lot of objects to
	a lot of processors.

2.	The other thing is that I will be doing some image processing.  This 
	implies that floating point work needs to be done.  Only the intel
	486 has it built in.  I believe that an off chip fpu would be 
	difficult to use for multiple processors.  The point is, would it
	be better to use processors that have it built in like the moto 88k?
	If thats the case, are these kind of boards available?  What will my
	host system have to be? i.e. 680xx?


	Any ideas or comments would be appreciated.  If I am going to have
to start development on a production box that meets my criteria it should
be fairly soon.  I have some ability to plug things together, but would
have to find someone else to design and build a the proto type board.
It was also pointed out to me that the is stuff in the VME world.  Is there
a good balance of price/functionality here? ....I appreciate any comments.