Having seen Symbolics' recent ad about their co-processor board for the Suns
I'm wondering if anyone at Symbolics is developing similiar stuff for the
pizzabox (Sparcstation-1) ? It would be nice if Symbolics can find a way to
use existing memory on the Suns rather than using their own tagged memory --
it all depends on how the Sun "sees" the co-processor board and how the board
is used I guess. I mean, those who are opting for the co-processor boards
might already have quite a bit of memory stuffed on their desktop and it is a
bad idea I guess if that can't be used by the co-processor board. Without the
10 meg of RAM on the co-processor board I think that the price for the board
(& the developement system) may drop quite a bit -- I mean, it is ridiculous
to move (or buy) a 3 mips deskside 3/160 and buy a $21K co-processor board
into your office when you already got a less than $9K 8~16meg 13 mips pizzabox
with on your desk -- it just doesn't make sense (especially when the board is
more expensive than a deskside unit let alone the pizzabox).
--
Eric Ho
Cognitive Science Lab., Princeton University
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regards.
-eric-
From: Mike Clarkson
Subject: Re: Symbolics co-processor board for the Sparcstation-1 ?
Date:
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In article <················@cognito.Princeton.EDU> ···@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) writes:
>Having seen Symbolics' recent ad about their co-processor board for the Suns
>I'm wondering if anyone at Symbolics is developing similiar stuff for the
>pizzabox (Sparcstation-1) ?
No chance, as the board is a VME bus board. I doubt you could use a
SCSI bus for this kind of communication between the processors.
Nice idea though...
Mike.
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