Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: Jan Vorbrueggen <jan@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: About virtual channels
Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Date: 09 Jun 1998 08:51:35 +0200
Message-ID: <y4zpfnxe2w.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

Brian.Oneill@ntu.ac.uk writes:

> The unique component of the SARNet system is a DMA-OS link interface to the
> StrongARM processor.  This connects to our ICR C416 routing switch and allows
> the user to set-up a very large number of virtual channels with a large 
> number of processors in the network.

Does this mean the interface contains an approximate equivalent of the 
T9000's VCP? I still consider this to be the major innovation of the T9...

	Jan