Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK!PVR%bgerug51.earn From: PVR%bgerug51.earn@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK (Patrick Van Renterghem / Transputer Lab) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: RE: CONPAR '88 product news Keywords: > B-9710 Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium, Europe. Fax: +32 91 22 85 9 Message-ID: <8809280852.AA18848@uk.ac.ox.prg> Date: 28 Sep 88 08:47:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 74 Dear Mailing List! > From: IN%"K312240%bitnet.aearn@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU" > Subj: CONPAR '88 product news > Transtech: > ---------- > They had the widest and nicest selection of PC boards, among others: > * 17 T's with no ext. RAM on one board. That is actually Quintek's Fast17 > * 9 T's with 1MB each, plus C004, on one board. and their Fast9 > * A graphics board (with not much software, sorry). But B007 compatible > * Niche products for Suns (software looks impressive, nicely integrated in > SunOS, they networked it with the transputers on the Niche machine in > the next room). The environment is called PRE and is indeed rather impressive (okay, we haven't seen Topologix not Cogent yet) > Inmos: > ------ > Just showed the flight simulator. Same thing in So'ton, but they promised to bring lots of technical notes to Antwerp. > SOFTWARE: > ========= > There was no new software running, but lots of rumors: > * Ada (Meiko, Inmos) Peter Cavill told us that this will become available in '89, it is actually Inmos and Alsys. > * Lisp (Parsys (still confidential) and some others) There are PD versions of XLisp and Little Smalltalk available from the National Transputer Support Centre in Sheffield > * Definicon will offer CUBIX and EXPRESS (Operating system kernels and > I/O & message passing libraries based on Caltec Hypercube developments, > compatible with Cros III). Express and Cubix are products of ParaSoft, a US company, that can be reached via john salmon, johns@tybalt.caltech.edu. > AI Limited: > ----------- > They will offer a Prolog-like environment for AI and symbolic > computation SW development, including a new language, on a wide range of > machines (Transputer systems, intel Hypercubes, ...) in 1Q89. Who/Where is AI Ltd. ? > Ask for more details, tell me if I missed something or said something > wrong! Idem dito. See you in Antwerp, Patrick