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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New from Atari (Re: Loyal Atarians?!?)
Message-ID: <7619@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 89 20:24:36 GMT
References: <1321@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <1321@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>, jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) says:

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

Transputers (T800 style) have pretty hot 4-function floating point math 
(looks about mid-point between 68882 speed and 68040 speed, to pick on two
chips I know better).  Integer-wise, they're in the same ballpark as a simple 
68020, depending on what you tell one to do.  The interface to external memory
is pretty bogus, but the chip's got 4k of on-chip RAM (not cache) which is very 
fast, so for a dedicated single task, a T800 can be pretty decent.  They've 
got built in link interfaces to hook up multiple Transputers together, though 
that's not quite as amazing as the Transputer enthusiasts would have you 
think, especially considering the inflated price of the T800 as compared to 
other 32 bit CPUs.

> Jim Wright
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