From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 5 13:11:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08853 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:11:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rachel (mail.glenatl.glenayre.com [157.230.160.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA08828 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jerry.Hicks@glenayre.com) Received: from jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com by rachel (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA18337; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:01:47 -0500 Received: from glenayre.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA02004 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:02:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36927DE7.D3A7B65C@glenayre.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 16:02:31 -0500 From: Jerry Hicks Reply-To: jerry.hicks@glenayre.com Organization: Glenayre Electronics, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony Playstations.. References: <199901050203.UAA32848@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19990105123502.D84950@titus.stade.co.uk> <36920C64.54215841@uk.radan.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Ovens wrote: > > Talking about UK supercomputers. Whatever happened to the Inmos > Transputer of the '80's?. I remember seeing one of these parallel > processing devices at an exhibition in the mid-80's. It was displaying > in real-time a Newton's Cradle, photo-realistically rendered. This at > the time when a 386 was the top of the range PC. > Last design I saw using Transputers was a Siemens SS7 protocol analyzer. FreeBSD just lost a driver for a Transputer board in the recent culling of "dead" software from the repo. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message