Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: Jan Vorbrueggen <jan@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: Short memories
Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Date: 03 Nov 1997 08:28:00 +0100
Message-ID: <y47maqjv27.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

Mark@nlcc.demon.co.uk (Mark Ian Barlow) writes:

> I never wanted a T9000; I wanted a 25$ 16-pin DIP TRAM-chip with a T425
> core (or 28-pin with some I/O). Why didn't SGS put a link engine on one
> of their (perfectly reasonable, if not mainstream) microcontrollers?

I _do_ think the T9000's VCP, variable-length IN/OUT, and the whole DS link
infrastructure to be an excellent development. They should have taken some
else's CPU to go with them...

	Jan