Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wnuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cbosgd!ihnp4!wnuxb!ken@turtlevax.uucp (Ken Turkowski) From: ken@turtlevax.uucp (Ken Turkowski) Newsgroups: mod.newprod Subject: MEiKO Computing Surface Message-ID: <625@wnuxb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 10:48:14 EDT Article-I.D.: wnuxb.625 Posted: Thu Aug 8 10:48:14 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 19:32:05 EDT Sender: netnews@wnuxb.UUCP Organization: AT&T - Warrenville Data Center, IL Lines: 24 Approved: netnews@wnuxb.uucp SIGGRAPH debuted the MEiKO Computing Surface, an interconnection of hundreds of transputers calculating hidden surface pictures. Their breif literature boasts 1,437,000,002 instructions per second, at a cost of $250.00/MIP. It is built on a "40-slot extended double Eurocard with proprietary point-to- point backplane. 100 ohm balanced differential environment engineered for link distribution at 20 Mbits/sec." The compute boards consist of "4 off [sic] 16 or [sic] 32 bit processors each with 48K bytes SRAM." Meiko, Inc.; #205 2527 N. Carson Street; Carson City, Nevada 89701 (702) 883-2622 Meiko Ltd.; Southgate; Bristol BS1 2NT (0272) 277332 [also a Japanese address was given, but my terminal doesn't have Katakana, much less Kanji. A number (telephone?) given was 03-435-4556.] -- Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA UUCP: {amd,decwrl,hplabs,nsc,seismo,spar}!turtlevax!ken ARPA: turtlevax!ken@DECWRL.ARPA -- Ronald W. Heiby / netnews@wnuxb.UUCP AT&T Information Systems, Inc., Lisle, IL (CU-D21)