Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: paul@walker.demon.co.uk (Paul Walker)
Subject: Re: STREAM announcement and INMOS
Organization: Paul Walker Consultancy
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 07:47:53 +0000
Message-ID: <769852073snz@walker.demon.co.uk>

In article <2qonr1$4em@ctnews2.sj.unisys.com>
           raw@stardust.sj.unisys.com "Bob Wipfel" writes:

>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 
....
>
>What??! No SGS-Thomson / INMOS! 
>
>Sparc, 29K and 486 listed. But No T9000 ?! 
.....
>
>
>Having read Paul Walker's comments about how easy it is to build
>embedded systems with the T9000 which echo numerous INMOS marketing

Not really my comments, but those of the people at WoTUG17 who had
got their hands on the devices and used them. I was just acting as 
reporter. Agreed the omission is curious --- can anyone from INMOS
or OMI or CHORUS comment?


>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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