Message-Id: <3651A385.7EA@mchugh.com> From: Andrzej Lewandowski Organization: McHugh Software International Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: Daughter wants parallel processing References: <364FDDD9.196F@proparanoid.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:25:41 -0500 H. Michael Sweeney wrote: > > My 14 year-old says shes ready for the big league. She found my > OCCAM/nMOS Transputer manuals from 12 years ago and says she has to have > it. She's smart enough -- straight A's and asking teachers to teach her > topics they don't know themselves -- taken up reading college-level > books on her own. > > If anyone out there can advise a simple and low-cost shopping solution > for a four-CPU card with all needed parts (or fully assembled board) for > a PC (Nu-Bus preferred or PCI if need be), and an appropriate OCCAM OS > programming kit (Mac OS preferred, etc.), I'd appreciate it. So would > she. > See Microway: http://www.microway.com/order.html It is not cheap, $3000+ for 4 cpu board. There was a company named Computer System Architects that manufactured Transputer Educational Toolkit. Unfortunately, it passed away long ago. I was told that someone is still selling the stuf that was inherited from their inventory, but I cannot figure it out who it is. Anyway, single CPU Educational Board was $500 (OCCAM included), therefore 4 CPUs would be $2000, anyway... Microway is not that more expensive. B.T.W. DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHO SELLS CSA KITS??? I still need them for testing efficiency of parallel algorithms... A.L.