Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dino!atanasoff!jwright 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 Lines: 28 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