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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: New from Atari (Re: Loyal Atarians?!?)
Message-ID: <1321@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 9 Aug 89 21:28:01 GMT
References: <30438@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <44ed9575.71d0@apollo.HP.COM>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <44ed9575.71d0@apollo.HP.COM> rehrauer@apollo.COM (Steve Rehrauer) writes:
| In article <30438@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) writes:
| > [a question begging for flames]
| [a response delightfully void of flames]
|
| Oops, forgot about the wonderfully sexy Transputer-based box, what
| they now call the "ATW", I guess.  Hey, that's actually shipping!  Oh,
| in Europe...  To developers...  For about what a NeXT or MAC IIx
| costs...  Not much software for it yet either (not much for a NeXT
| either, but at least that's a sexier box :)...  Hmmm.

Is this the box that was recently shown at siggraph in Boston?  Infoworld
said:  "... 3-D graphics engine for PCs designed to shade and display 3-D
color models in real time ... sits in a separate box and connects to PC
compatibles and other computers through a SCSI interface ... rated to
perform 1 million 3-D matrix transformations per second and can process
more than 190,000 clipped and projected polygons per second ... will drive
any standard multisynchronous monitor designed to work with a standard
VGA card  ... 65,000 colors from a palette of 16 million at a resolution
of 640 by 480 pixels ... uses a single Inmos T800 transputer and custom
ASICs ... under $12,000 ..."

Are transputers really this hot?  Should we be screaming for the oft-discussed
transputer board?  Certainly not at that price, but...  :-)

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu