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- From: lyond@csc4.essex.ac.uk (Lyons D M)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
- Subject: Strange advertising
- Message-ID: <5374@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 08:43:13 GMT
- References: <7271.9209041250@prg.ox.ac.uk> <JAN.92Sep7142820@pallas.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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- Reply-To: lyond@essex.ac.uk (Lyons D M)
- Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- On British ITV, Tuesday 8/9/92 at 9 pm, something called a transputer was the
- focus of a detective program ("Boon"). This device, a "printed circuit to help
- computers talk to one another".
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- Some of the technology was quite correctly portrayed. It seemed important that
- "the FPU was on the same chip as the CPU", although the actor seemed
- uncomfortable with the line. The industrial spies seemed to spend a lot of
- time stripping the data from proms or EPLD's or such.
-
- Perhaps it was not a good idea to hide the thing (even in its carefully labeled
- antistatic wrapper) in the cistern of a toilet.
-
- Did Inmos give permission for this usage?
-
- David Lyons, Computer Science, University of Essex, Colchester C04 3SQ
- England. Tel: 44 206 872674
- Email: lyond@uk.ac.essex Fax: 44 206 872788 (GP's 3/2/Auto)
- David Lyons, Computer Science, University of Essex, Colchester C04 3SQ /-----\
- England. Tel: 44 206 872674 |-o_o-|
- Email: lyond@uk.ac.essex Fax: 44 206 872788 (GP's 3/2/Auto) | |
- The most important things in life are Red Balloons. |!!!!!|
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