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- From: roger@inmos.co.uk (Roger Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: REQ: T9000 Status
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.094952.3598@inmos.co.uk>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:49:52 GMT
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- I am not commenting on availability, I just wanted to clarify something.
-
- Jacob Hirbawi (jcbhrb@nic.cerf.net) wrote:
-
- : (1) A fully functional T9000 including the virtual channel capability
- : will be ready around March 1993. This will not be a 50-Mhz part, but
- : will run somewhere around 25-40 MHz. The link speed should still be
- : 100 Mbits/sec (this part doesn't make too much sense to me but that's
- : what I was told!).
-
- On the T9000 the links and processor speeds are determined
- indepentdently. There is no reason why a 25 Mhz T9000 should not have
- 100 Mbit/s links. Remember, all transputers are clocked at 5 Mhz,
- whatever the speed of the processor/links. T800 transputers are
- available at 20/25 and 30 Mhz, all of which support links running at
- 5/10/20 Mbit/s.
-
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