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- From: rms@well.sf.ca.us (richard marlon stein)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
- Subject: Re: T9000 status
- Message-ID: <Bt5K0r.Ez7@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 00:00:26 GMT
- References: <24973.9208171506@lion.inmos.co.uk>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
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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:
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- >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.
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- Richard Marlon Stein, Internet: rms@well.sf.ca.us
- To those who know what is not known; The Chronicles of Microwave Jim!
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