Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: thor@tordivel.no (Thor Vollset)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP for transputer
Organization: TORDIVEL AS, Oslo, Norway
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 94 18:26:37 +0100
Message-ID: <dGTVuApNBh107h@tordivel.no>

In <332fmd$gdd@serra.unipi.it> luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it writes:
>     Thor Vollset wrote in article <wr7UuAOJBh107h@tordivel.no> :
>>
>>TCP/IP for transputer.
>>
>>Is there anybody with interest in embedded transputer solution
>>with a TCP/IP connection ?

>To my knowledge there there are already at least two solutions
>to this problem:
>- The INMOS B300 is a Link-to-Ethernet box which runs TCP/IP and
>  allow you to acces your transputers from a TCP/IP system.
>  A bit expensive.

This is very thru. It makes it impossible for example to put 100 of these
boxes as a part of a ships control system. ( it would then be
the most expensive ship control system in the world ).

>- PCserver is a public domain software which does the same as above
>  by using a PC motherboard, an ethernet card and one or more
>  transputer board/link adapters.

I would be interested to know where to get more information about this.

>You said embedded: don't know for the B300 (but it cannot be this big),
>but PC motherboards are quite small nowadays (and you can even use a
>laptop).

This is too big and expensive compared to the solution I see.
I see a solution where a large number of "small clusters of transputers" are connected
to a higher level computer like WorkStations and PCs. 
   And one they we can talk to these transputers on the INTERNET !!

>>
>>Any knowledge about it ?
>>
>>TORDIVEL are in cooperation with Sundance investigating the possibilities
>>of making such a solution a nice price.

>of course, innovations are always welcome...

>      Luigi

>====================================================================
>Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
>email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
>tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
>fax: +39-50-568522
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Thor

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