Quick off the mark, Tadpole Technology Plc has come out with two systems based on the 68040 microprocessor just a week after Motorola announced that first samples were being shipped. Using the 25MHz part – it’s that or nothing as yet – the TP40V and TP41V are rated at 20 MIPS and 3.5 MFLOPS. The TP40V offers networking and SCSI features and is aimed at high-end applications, the TP41V has dual VME/VSB bus architecture, networking capabilities and is targeted at high performance VMEbus applications. The TP40V has up to 16Mb, the TP41V up to 32Mb, both come with Ethernet, two RS232 ports and the TP40V also has an SCSI interface. Software is Tadpole’s version of standard AT&T System V.3 Unix – V.4 will be available in the fourth quarter – an optimising compiler for the 68040, support for Wind River Systems’ VXWorks real-time development system and optional TCP/IP, Network File System and X-Windows applications.
