Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: raw@stardust.sj.unisys.com (Bob Wipfel)
Subject: STREAM announcement and INMOS
Organization: Unisys Open Systems Group, San Jose
Date: 10 May 1994 19:38:09 GMT
Message-ID: <2qonr1$4em@ctnews2.sj.unisys.com>

Abstracted from a recent Euro announcment:-

> 
> +      STREAM EURO-TEAM TO INVEST $11m DOING APPLICATION- 
>         SPECIFIC EMBEDDED VARIANTS OF CHORUS MICROKERNEL 
> 
> A consortium of telecommunications companies, real-time 
> systems vendors and microprocessor manufacturers will this week 
> announce they are starting work on a $11m project called Stream 
> to develop a range of Chorus microkernel-based real-time and 
> distributed operating systems for the embedded market. The 
> project is backed by the European Union's Open Microprocessor 
> Initiative, and members include Chorus Systemes SA, Alcatel NV, 
> L M Ericsson Telefon AB, Philips NV, Siemens AG, and GEC Alsthom 
> SA. Matra MHS SA, which builds the 32-bit Sparc microcontroller 
> 90C700 family, and Advanced Micro Devices Inc, which makes the 
> 29000 RISC and E Series Am486 processor ranges, will provide 

What??! No SGS-Thomson / INMOS! 

Sparc, 29K and 486 listed. But No T9000 ?! 

> their fellow members with ready-to-use hardware, but additional 
> conversions are planned. The aim is to deliver portable and 
> scalable real-time microkernels and related development tools to 
> the telecommunications, networking and real-time embedded 
> markets within two years. The microkernels will have application 
> programming interface support for Posix, networking, distributed 
> configurations and Unix, and will be made publicly available. 
> They will be marketed by Chorus Systemes and Stream members also 
> intend to integrate them into their respective product ranges. 
> Target applications for the embedded systems include private 
> branch exchanges, broadband communications systems, switching 
> and internetworking equipment, on-board software for high-speed 
> trains, personal digital assistants, interactive television and 
> video games. 
> 

Having read Paul Walker's comments about how easy it is to build
embedded systems with the T9000 which echo numerous INMOS marketing
folk who target the T9000 at embedded applications it is _real_
interesting that INMOS aren't listed above. What happened? Is INMOS
targetting the T9000 at embedded applications - or not?

I thought the EC's Open Microprocessor Initiative was supposed to
promote the development of a European open micro? How come Sparc, 29K
and 486 are all up there and INMOS micros aren't ??? especially in 
this application area where INMOS has all along stated that transputers
are primarily targetted at embedded / real time applications.

Bob.

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