poormans transputer

From: charlesb_at_otcgaming.net <(charlesb_at_otcgaming.net)>
Date: Mon May 24 10:21:39 2004

"digiboards" used to use the same sort of thing, a mini controller on the
board to handle the comms between each port and the host devices.

They used to have firmware uplaoded to them on boot using the drivers,

a quick google search came up with this...

http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=2205731&list=59
http://he.fi/archive/linux-hams/199906/0363.html
http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=specialix+si%2Fxio+&btnG=Google+Search

hope these help

Charles 'Thunder' Blackburn
Quake3 Co-Lead
http://www.tsncentral.com
The Leader in the E-Sports Revolution

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Dahl Pind" <rachael_at_rachael.dyndns.org>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: poormans transputer


> I found a specialix si/xio multi serial port controler, sadly without
> the cables and actual link modules, it uses a ST t225 tranputer along
> with 64kb memory.
> As I looked at the linux software for it, it seems as I could upload
> a small program to it and make it run, Anyone tried such a thing ?
Received on Mon May 24 2004 - 10:21:39 BST