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- From: davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham)
- Subject: Re: Strange advertising
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.155112.6600@inmos.co.uk>
- Reply-To: davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham)
- Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
- References: <7271.9209041250@prg.ox.ac.uk> <JAN.92Sep7142820@pallas.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <5374@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:51:12 GMT
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- In article <5374@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> lyond@essex.ac.uk (Lyons D M) writes:
- >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".
- >
- >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?
- >
-
- Yes.
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- We gave them some old boards (B002's I think) from the cupboard.
- We didn't know anything about the plot until the screening this week
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- Don't know where the idea came from.
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