Re: XMOS XC-1 kits are ****pping

On Oct 11, 6:43=A0am, Leon <leon...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 10 Oct, 17:42, ste...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Oct 10, 9:01=A0pm, Leon <leon...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > I've just ordered my 1600 MIPS XMOS XC-1 design kit.
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> > > The XMOS chips will replace DSPs and FPGAs in a lot of applications.
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> > > I haven't been so excited about a new chip since the transputer came
> > > out. David May designed them both, of course.
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> > > Leon
> > > leon...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Is the comparison with the Transputer supposed to imply this is a half
> > thought out design with brain dead execution? :-\
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> > Steve
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> The transputer was ahead of its time, and really pushed the technology
> that was available. I sold a lot of systems using it, mostly to
> universities and research establishments, because there was nothing
> else around with that sort of performance then. Inmos even had their
> own fab!
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> Leon

Yes at the time it was way ahead. Trouble is that there was not many
people who had given thought to paralel computing back then - even now
it is experimental on the whole and not mainstream.
Another machine of the time was made by Linn Products who make Hi-Fi..

http://****tal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3D381711.381716


 It was a small-talk machine called Recusiv  - fully Object Orientated
- again way ahead of its time. People had just started using C and
were still using Fortran.
Assembler was the only low level language available.


Hardy