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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: VME boards (was Re: Niche is Dead?)
Summary: Apollo has AT slots...
Keywords: vme
Message-ID: <6952@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 88 22:00:54 GMT
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Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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If what you want is transputers hooked onto a Unix system, then
an alternative to VME is the Apollo 3x00 series workstations.
They have IBM-PC compatible slots.  Since it would be Unix rather
than MS-DOS, one would need to write a Unix device driver to support
I/O to/from the board(s) in the multi-tasking environment.
(If anybody has done that for the Apollo I'd like to hear about it!)
In that context it would help a lot if the transputer board would
support interrupts and DMA.  As far as I know, Microway and Definicon
do not, but the CSA boards do.  The Inmos B008 does, but the B004
does not.  I'm not sure about Parsytec.  Any others?

- Moshe Braner

PS: I do hope Niche is revived!