Paris-based Archipel SA is to market a number of development boards and systems based on the T9000. These include the Volvox-TW-9000 ready to start computer; the Volvox-devT9000 toolbox for embedded systems; and three boards – the Volvox-1/SF-900 SBus board, Volvox-1/CTR-900 and Volvox-1/V-900 Master/Slave VME T9000. The TW-9000 parallel MIMD system according to Archipel, goes from one user-friendly pizza box, filled with four High Performance Transputer Modules, up to arrangements of four boxes linked together. The software will include the Inmos T9000 C and Occam-based Toolset, and Chorus Systemes SA’s Chorus/MiX real time Unix operating system. The system can be used to develop parallel embedded applications or as a booster for workstations. Sample price for a 16Mb box is $45,000. The Volvox-devT9000 is a software development and support system for integrating standard High Performance Transputer Modules, HTRAMs, and peripheral controllers. It enables users to prototype specific hardware interfaces and also network systems. It is based on an open VME chassis with Inmos motherboards and HTRAMs and will offers switching boards using one or more C104 Inmos chip, with wire connections between boards conforming to the Inmos standard. It costs $25,000. The 1/SF-900 board for Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations includes shared memory between the T9000 and SBus. It can be used as a single processor development system, a gateway to a network of T9000s, a Transputer network controller or a combination of all three. It is around $3,500. The 1/CTR-900 board provides the basis for a development system that includes SCSI II and Ethernet. It is $7,200. Finally the Master/Slave VME T9000 board, built on top of Chorus is for use as a VME controller. It is $7,300 to $8,600.
