17 Mar
2007
17 Mar
'07
6:44 p.m.
Andrew Back wrote:
Should have done some more Googling before I sent
that.
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Andrew Back wrote:
<snip>
Sounds like it could be related to a machine in the Jim Austin
collection (http://www.computermuseum.org.uk/) / supercomputers / meganode.
James
- Backplane takes up to 7 cards, is marked
'Version A 22/10/89' and
has 4 x ceramic 80486 sized ICs marked 'NEC RSRE S01 8714K9'. I don't
know what these are but suspect they may be soft configurable devices
for transputer link routing.
Looks as though the 'RSRE' chip was a bespoke switching ASIC produced
for Supernode development partner Royal Signals & Radar Establishment.
"Esprit I P1085 project The work done under the Esprit I P1085 project
[1] partially funded by CEC was related the development and