Archipel SA of Paris claims that it has the first Inmos International Ltd Transputer-based distributed Unix system, built using Chorus Systemes SA’s Unix System V-compatible microkernel technology on Archipel’s Volvox-TS line of multiple instruction-multiple data parallel processors. Volvox-TS uses the T805 Transputer and will move up to the T9000 in due course. It comes with up to 64 processors, and the T9000 version will take as many as 2,048 processors; the machines cane be configured as hypercubes, rings, tori or binary trees, and come with standard SCS and Ethernet interfaces. The Volvox will be the reference machine for the Chorus microkernel on the Transputer.
