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From: dickey@ssc-vax.UUCP (Frederick J Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Book and hardware cellular automata references
Message-ID: <1348@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 09:34:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.1348
Posted: Tue Jul 21 09:34:48 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 01:57:25 EDT
References: <1600@xanth.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
Lines: 37
Keywords: good read, fast hardware card for PC compatibles
Summary: how much it costs

In article <1600@xanth.UUCP>, kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
> Amigans,
> 	For those who have an interest in cellular automata on the Amiga,
> 	the following recent book is probably of incredible interest.  It
> 
> 		Cellular Automata Machines
> 		Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus
> 
> 	For those of you contemplating an Amiga 2000 purchase, the following
> 	machine reference from the book will be of interest:
> 
> 		CAM-6, a card for the IBM-PC/XT/AT that, for the limited
> 		application of cellular automata applications, provides
> 		Cray-1 level performance, available from SYSTEM CONCEPTS,
> 		San Francisco, CA.
> 

I saw this thing demoed at the AAAI conference in Seattle last week. It looks
neat! However, the entire package costs $1500 (+ tax in California). Each
cell can have up to 16 states. I don't know whether or not that is enough.
The phone number of Systems Concepts is 415-984-1000.

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