Paratech Solutions Ltd, Coulsdon, Surrey, has an AT-compatible workstation board using the Inmos T800 Transputer, designed to turn an AT-alike into a 10 MIPS graphics system. The GM8013 board, rated at 1.5 MFLOPS, supports the Posix-compliant Helios multi-user, multi-processor operating system developed by Perihelion Software Ltd, which supports X Window, C, Fortran and Pascal compilers. It can thus be used as the basis of a Unix-like workstation, as an X-terminal, or as a graphics board for MS-DOS, with a Borland-compatible graphics library. Drivers for AutoCAD, MS-Windows and Gem are under development, and Paratech already has a painting package for creating advertising artwork or textile design. The GM8103 has an on-board display capability with a viewable resolution of 1,536 by 1,152 pixels, 256 colours, two independent 8-bit hardware windows, three colour user definable hardware cursor and single-pixel pan with 16-level hardware zoom and comes with 1Mb or 4Mb memory, up to 8Mb dual ported video RAM, and communicates with the AT via high-speed FIFO buffer or SCSI module; no prices.
