1 Nov
2000
1 Nov
'00
9:33 p.m.
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 00:35:27 -0800 Mike Ford
<mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> wrote:
I was just doing some digging on the Levco Prodigy 4
16 mhz 68030 board for
the mac SE when I turned up a couple references to a Levco transputer.
Specifically there is apparently an article about it in the November 1988
Byte magazine pages 213, 216, and 292. Anybody know more, sounds like it
was a typical Inmos part on a nubus card for the mac II series.
There is a picture of something on this site, but its all in japanese.
http://www.fsinet.or.jp/~somethin/Backnumber000131.htm
Judging by the (rather small) photo, it has four
transputers and SIMM memory on a NuBus card. There's a
fifth PGA chip at the far left-hand end, which may be a
C004 link switch, or possibly a T212. I don't know whether
this is a link-adaptor interface board or a shared-memory
interface.
We never saw any Mac-based transputer cards at INMOS,
mainly because the Mac was regarded by many as a simple
computer for stupid people. I wouldn't agree with that
(and I certainly don't want to start a flame war), but it
did mean that INMOS did almost nothing with transputers in
Mac hosts.
--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England