12 Dec
2013
12 Dec
'13
7:22 p.m.
On 12/12/13 4:13 PM, James Wilson wrote:
Hi Kyle, not seen a system like that before - looks
very nice!
No idea on the Helios boot I'm afraid, but do please post back to the
group if you make progress because I'm really keen to try and get it
running on my 340 node T425 system when I get some time :)
WOW. Wow. I would love to hear more, when you fire it up. Can you blog
it? Post pr0^H^H^H pictures??
I only ever ran two of the buggers, T800s, and they were fantastic for
both integer and floating point.
--Toby
James
On 09/12/2013 22:07, Kyle Owen wrote:
Hi all,
I am attempting to get Helios running on a 64-core T805-based Transputer
array. This is a one-of-a-kind system with a custom case. It uses a
single-board 486DX with 8MB of RAM on an ISA card for the host system.
The
PC front end runs Windows 3.1 or MS-DOS 6. There are eight T805s on eight
custom cards. It doesn't use TRAMs, but I have a feeling these are wired
like such on the board. Pictures of the system can be found here:
http://imgur.com/a/fCA3C
I've been getting all of my Helios editions from
http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/helios.htm. I first tried version
1.1,
and after copying the contents over to the hard drive from a single
floppy
disk, running the server results in an error:
ns : Incompatible version of Rmap 6e627573
ns : error is fatal, exiting.
I finally got 1.31 working on the system by downloading another DOS
executable of the server and playing with some configurations. I also
used
ispy and mtest to see the structure of the system, which uses several
C004
cross links. Unfortunately, ispy only reports a single T805-25 processor
connected to the host at address 0x150.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why the other 63 T805s and several C004s
aren't showing up?
Thanks in advance,
Kyle