Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: thor@tordivel.no (Thor Vollset)
Subject: Re: Transputer and Coherent UNIX
Organization: TORDIVEL AS, Oslo, Norway
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 94 07:35:03 +0100
Message-ID: <npeVuAnBBh107h@tordivel.no>

In <777321587snz@aiki.demon.co.uk> jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk (Jim Dixon) writes:
>In article <emartel.118.2E5022ED@noc.tor.hookup.net>
>           emartel@noc.tor.hookup.net "Eric Martel" writes:
>> How difficult would it be to make a transputer work with coherent unix.

>What does this question mean?  Do you mean

>A   can I run Coherent UNIX on a PC and communicate with a B004/B008-
>    compatible transputer board? or

>B   can I run Coherent UNIX on ther transputer? or

>C   some other question?

>Possible answers are

>A   sure, you just have to modify ISERVER; Inmos supplies the source
>    code with the B008

>B   well, no, Coherent UNIX is a 286/386 program and it isn't supplied
>    with source code

>C   gotta have a better question

D    If yo can access the IO-Port of the PC-BUS. Then anybody with knowledge
     can implement a B004 interface in 12 hours. The advantage/disadvantage
     ( how you feel about ) of this is that you have to define your application
     protocol. A B004 interface consists of these functions :

		ReadByte
		DataReady
		WriteByte
		OutputReady
		Error
		Analyse
		Reset

     This is 200 lines simple of code.

     Example code use to follow the TDS. Show how it is difficult to see how
     easy it is.

 	
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