Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: Filip Sebek <see.my.homep@ge.Don't.like.spam>
Reply-To: http://www.idt.mdh.se/fsk
Subject: Re: Info on Transputer ISA Board
Organization: Computer Engineering, MdH
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:47:59 +0100
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David Arnold wrote:
> 
> Edu <edu@kender.es> writes:
> > 1) Is there a way to know if this board is still working without
> > purchasing programs? I currently have machines with DOS, Windows 3.1,
> > Windows 95, Linux and FreeBSD.
> 
> most transputer host software will understand the B008-style boards.
> i forget the interrupt/IO port options, but the software doc should
> have them.
Standard is #150, Irq 3 and DMA channel 1
Switches should on your board be set to 10010000. Beware on other
motherboards the switches should be setup in another way. In your
config.sys you should have set
DEVICE=\{PATHNAME}\s708driv.sys /a 150 /d 1 /i 3

> try the iserver software from the HENSA archive.
> very nice, but very out of date, IMHO.  
Disagree. In real-time systems there is hardware support for
taskswitches and the system is pretty easy to predict (no caches,
pipelines etc). Performance... hmmm... well it's not state of the art
but still it is a very good idea...

>there's little support for
> using transputers in any form these days.
True. But there are newsgroups ;-)

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