Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!dickey 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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *