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- From: parsec@iowegia.uucp (mike thompson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
- Subject: RE: IMPORTANT questions. please read.
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- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 01:17:09 CDT
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- jcbhrb@nic.cerf.net (Jacob Hirbawi) writes:
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- > Now let's say a
- > T9000 costs $700 and 4MBytes of DRAM $100 and say $200 for other parts;
- > (let's forget about development and manufacturing costs for now).
- > You have 25 MFlops (or 200 Mips or anyway you look at it: a lot of
- > power) *with built-in parallelism* for about $1000. The real cost is higher,
- > but not by much. And you can stamp out as many copies as you need! .
- > Now if you are a company and try to sell these things you have to cover
- > advertising, payroll, insurance, and all that jazz and the price skyrockets.
- > But for your own use you have a reasonably priced processing unit.
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- ... build it, and they will buy ...
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- Give the computing enthusiasts
- 1) a board with a T9000 and provision for lots of RAM
- 2) hardware provisions for parallelism (more boards)
- 3) a clean, stable OS that isn't in your face every other microsecond
- 4) a language that can use these resources
- 5) basic plug-'n-play system <5000 US$
- 6) fairly readable docs in depth
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- The users will soon write a multitude of attractive PD applications. Atari
- claimed to be doing just that with T800s not long ago. Wonder what happpened?
- Anyway, I should thing fame and fortune would then be unavoidable.
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