Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: rrao@big.att.com (Ramesh D. Rao)
Subject: T9000 & PC boards -- 'summary' -- longish
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 22:38:50 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jun15.223850.2499@big.att.com>

Here is a list of edited replies I had regarding T9000 & kits
for PCs. I hope the originators do not mind me cutting and repasting
their mail. I have also included their names and email addresses.
Hope this info is useful for people who asked me to summarise.

Ramesh
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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 20:54:05 +0100 (BST)
Sender: R.Peel@ee.surrey.ac.uk

Re:T9000

(i)  I reckon that the Parsys 9x00 series are the best-engineered of the 
     ones which I have seen.  Although Parsytec have been forced to
     design a PowerPC-and-T800 processor in place of their planned
     T9000+T800 GC architecture, I still reckon that Parsytec's Parix
     operating environment is the best for serious-scale transputing.
     T9000s are available to these large vendors in 25MHz versions at
     present, ramping up to 40MHz in the next 6-9 months (we hope!).

Re:Kits
(ii) I believe that CSA sell their Transputer Education Kit with the board
     in kit form - but the whole bundle is cheap enough that building
     it yourself is probably a false economy.  The TEK comes with the
     D705 occam toolset and the Logical Systems C compiler, for about
     #250 in the UK ($300ish in the US?)

Try Computer System Architects
950 N University Ave
Provo
Utah 84604
USA

Lyle Bingham on (801) 374 2300

Notice that TDS3 is now available in source form from /parallel on
unix.hensa.ac.uk - we will package it up and provide the binaries too
during the summer.

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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 12:08:12 -0600
From: lwb@bones.et.byu.edu (Lyle Bingham)

Re:Kits

please send me  a mailing address (USPO) and a fax number
by return email.
I can send you information on the CSA Transputer Education Kit
and give you an update on the not-ready-yet-T9000.
The version of the T9000 out at the present time is an engineering
version, speed tweeks need to be made to it.  At present, ST/Inmos has
been working on building the part at new fab facilities with
better yeyield.

Best regards

Lyle W. Bingham
(801) 374-2300 (CSA)

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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 12:41:39 PDT
From: len@contec.COM (Leonard Mills)
Organization: CONTEC Microelectronics, San Jose


Re:T9000
  There have been "engineering samples" available with severely-
  reduced performance for almost a year.

  There are _no_ samples of full-speed T9000s on the planet, to
  the best of my knowledge and belief.  We have had a purchase 
  order in for 11,000 each T9000s for over two years, without a
  a single unit being delivered to date. 

  This is the third consecutive year of late spring/early summer
  statements by SGS/Thompson Inmos that there would be fully
  functional T9000s available "by the end of this calendar year."

  Caveat emptor.

Re:Kits

  If you can use T800s, both TransTech and CSA have "starter kits"
  available at good prices.  But you only get a single transputer
  for the introductory pricing unless you are making an educational
  purchase.  Inmos also has "kits" available for small configurations.
  The CSA and TransTech prices are somewhat more attractive, especially
  if you don't need the Inmos developers kit and can make do with the
  compilers available from third parties.  But if you need to be able to
  handle large software projects, our experience is that the Inmos
  compilers and linkers are the only viable choice.

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Date: Sat, 4 Jun 94 00:08:00 -0400
From: Wayne BRANAGH <branagh@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Re:PC boards

	Microway (ads in Byte and PCMag) sells i860 processor boards.
	Their full blown system, a GigaCube, contains 20 i860's and can
	perform 10^9 flops. At $50K, it's out of reach for me. You can
	buy boards with one i860 on it for about $4K(?).  

	National Instruments sells DSP based processor boards for Macs
	and PC's. For the Mac, you might be interested in the
	NB-DSP2300 or NB-DSP2305. I think the PC version is AT-DSP2305.
	The NB-DSP2300 is capable of 33.33 Mflops and supports DMA
	transfers. 

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Date: Tue, 07 Jun 94 08:24:37 GMT
From: ma@mail.sundance.com (Mark Ainsworth)
Organization: Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd.

SMT produce a whole range of transputer, 'C40 and DEC Alpha products for
use in the PC environment. We do have a T9000 product which is currently
running at 20 MHz due to silicon problems at inmos. If you would like a 
catalogue then email your snail mail address.




