Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!sdcsvax!amos!paul From: paul@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Paul Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: VME boards (was Re: Niche is Dead?) Keywords: vme Message-ID: <5628@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Date: 5 Dec 88 19:55:57 GMT References: <7521.8811221012@pyr.swan.ac.uk> <3757@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <5622@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <282@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Sender: nobody@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU Reply-To: paul@amos.UUCP (Paul Smith) Organization: Univ. of Calif., San Diego Lines: 33 jevans@.ucalgary.ca (David Jevans) writes: > I talked to CSA on friday for about an hour and it seems that > ........ > they were simply providing a VME board (with 1 transputer, probably > a T212 or T222). No crossbar switch etc was mentioned. (Topologix > sells boards like that). It was my understanding, that the CSA board was actually going to provide 4 links on the VME bus for 4 anythings, probably transputers. Also they were to provide a 5th link which could accommodate a crossbar switch. Their board itself doesn't come with any transputers, just the link adapters and buffers for them. You could independently talk to the crossbar switch from the VME bus, which would allow you to reconfigure your transputer network. On each of the links you could hang either 1 transputer or a network of transputers. In my original posting I forgot to mention that PARSYTEC also advertises VME boards. I don't know much about them but I have tons of their literature. In the United States they are represented by: CNC Marketing (312) 879-7003 (I've talked with Randy Cochran, about 6-12 months ago). ============================================================================== Paul Smith Internet: paul@amos.ling.ucsd.edu UUCP: ...ucbvax!sdcsvax!amos!paul Bitnet: pssmith@ucsd.bitnet