Pacific Parallel Research Inc of Cardiff by the Sea, California has a T9000 interface for NuBus Macintosh computers with its Pac8 and Pac2 boards that can accept Inmos Ltd’s T9000 DevTRAM module. This is a size six Transputer Module measuring around 3.5 by 6.3 with one 40MHz T9000 processor and at least 4Mb of 60nS Dynamic RAM. It is capable of 200 MIPS and 25 MFLOPS. The DevTram can also use T805 and T425 Transputers. Off-board links and subsystem support for connecting several Pac8 and Pac2 boards will be available too. High Performance Transputer Module support is offered courtesy of Pacific Parallel’s Mac-T9000 NuBus interface board. This features a single 50MHz T9000 with up to 128Mb of memory. It can also accommodate up to three 50MHz T9000 processors on High Performance Modules, each with up to 8Mb of 60nS DRAM. A portion of the Mac-T9000’s memory is addressable from the Macintosh’s main memory. The device will also implement Apple Computer Inc’s QuickRing bus protocol for data transfers of up to 200Mbps between NuBus boards. No prices.
