Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!apple!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!daveh 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 Lines: 21 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 -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy Be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it