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

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:59:35 -0700 (PDT), Leon <leon355@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>On 11 Oct, 20:33, HardySpicer <gyansor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Oct 11, 6:43 am, Leon <leon...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > The transputer was ahead of its time, and really pushed the
technology
>> > that was available. 
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>> Another machine of the time was made by Linn Products who make Hi-Fi..
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>> http://****tal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=381711.381716
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>>  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
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>I remember the Rekursiv. I even asked them if they would sell me some
>chips. They would only sell me one of their boards, which were rather
>expensive.

There were only ever about 30 chipsets (from LSI Logic); if one had been
sold individually it would have left a board empty.

In any case, a prototype board for two 299 pin PGAs (at the time, LSI
said, the largest in Europe) and a 223 pin would have been decidedly
non-trivial.

The price of £25k for a board was regrettable, but without a much larger
company behind it, there wasn't going to be any other option.

A second version would have been far more cost-effective but never made
it past the initial design stages.

- Brian