Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: paul@walker.demon.co.uk (Paul Walker)
Subject: Re: Status of T9000
Organization: Paul Walker Consultancy
Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 22:15:42 +0000
Message-ID: <768089742snz@walker.demon.co.uk>

In article <2q8f4p$75c@oak5.doc.ic.ac.uk>
           jsps@doc.ic.ac.uk "James Spender" writes:

>
>The T9000 is looking pretty good as well. The chips coming from Crolles at
>the moment are yielding well. As
>far as we can tell they run any code we throw at them at up to 25MHz. If
>the internal ram / cache is disabled the programs will run at up to 40MHz,
>although the actual code runs slower because of the lack of cache.
>
>I was emailed this information on 25 March.

At the recent WoTUG conference, a number of transputer users were talking 
about the things they had built with T9000s, how easy they were to
design with, and how a 20MHz T9000 was an ideal processor for embedded
applications. INMOS were quite correctly being cautious to say that
general availability of samples will not be until the next silicon
revision. But the users were very impressed.

Those of you in England may see some short articles in Electronics
Weekly as a result of a report on the WoTUG17 conference that I sent them
(and a few other publications). I hope what appears in print is
not too mangled.

Paul Walker

