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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Book and hardware cellular automata references
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Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 19:03:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1600
Posted: Sun Jul 19 19:03:27 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jul-87 00:50:53 EDT
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: good read, fast hardware card for PC compatibles

Amigans,
	For those who have an interest in cellular automata on the Amiga,
	the following recent book is probably of incredible interest.  It
	is clear and easy, and gives lots of (to me new) examples of
	automata to implement on Amy.  It is Forth oriented, but gives a
	sufficient orientation to Forth to suffice to understand the
	examples.

		Cellular Automata Machines
		Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus
		The MIT Press
		Cambridge, Massachusetts
		London, England
		Copyright 1987 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
		Library of Congress:  QA267.5 C45T64 1987 511.3 86-33804
		ISBN:  0-262-20060-0

	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.

	(If some kind San Franciscan can provide a complete address and phone
	number for these folks, the rest of us would appreciate it.)

	(Cross posted to comp.theory.cell-automata for obvious reasons.)

Kent, the man from  disg i