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From: paul@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Paul Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: VME boards (was Re: Niche is Dead?)
Keywords: vme
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Date: 4 Dec 88 07:45:08 GMT
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	Computer Systems Architects is working on, and I believe has, a 
proto-type of a VME board which will support 4 transputers and a 
crossbar switch.  The board is supposed to have buffers for each of 
the transputers and separately mappable registers for each of the 
transputers so you could do DMA to each of the transputers on 
the board.  Also I believe that they intend to provide interrupts
on the VME bus for i/o. Sounds like it'll beat the pants off our 
B011.

	Our contact with C.S.A. is:
			Glen Lowery 
			(801)374-2300
			Provo Utah, U.S.A.
			csa@adam.byu.edu	

P.S.  We have several of their P.C. boards hanging off our B011 in our 
	sun and are very pleased with the performance and price of their boards.

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