14 Dec
2008
14 Dec
'08
7 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
That sounds about right. All in 41256s IIRC.
There are certainly transputer boards for the
PC. The most common in my
experience si the B004, which is am ISA card with a T4 or T8 chip on it,
rows of DIP DRAM, the link interface and ISA bus logic and not a lot
else.
All that DIP RAM was usually 2Mbytes so that you could run the occam compiler in it. Remember, this was in the days of
640k PC memories.
[...]
[TRAMs]
interfaces
exist, as does one with a vector processor chip (alongside the
transputer).
The Zoran chip? B011: TRAM motherboard in ITEM card format (?)
Are you sure? I thought the B011 was a VME card. I seem to rememebr
seeing one in the particle physics lab at Bristol, where I was making my
own transputer-based machine.
[..]
The ITEM (INMOS Transputer Evauation Module) was a
sub-rack holding
a dozen or so extended-Eurocard-sized boards.
The oen I have is a 3U rack with the horizontal adapter for 6U boards (if
you see what I mean, the extended Eurocard boards fit horizontally).
There's a PSU at one end and a fan unit at the other. It lokes to take 5
such PCBs.
-tony