From: Jan Vorbrueggen Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: ST450 Date: 05 Mar 1999 09:10:40 +0100 Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Message-Id: References: <36c03424.0@glitch.nildram.co.uk> Xref: ukc comp.sys.transputer:9075 wayne@focus-systems.on.ca (Wayne Fisher) writes: > >I still find it difficult to believe that SGS could screw up the > >Transputer so badly. It would have been so much nicer if the 20450 had > >been a 40MHz T805 or even T425. > > The 20450 has some nice features - if they'd all work. But yes, I'd > have been happy with a faster T425. [...] > If we knew what we know now, I doubt we would have even thought about > using the 20450. We could have put our time to better use, moving to a > different processor. I do understand the sentiment, but it's really sad when you compare the T800 design and what then came later on. I wonder what became of the guys who did the formal design/verification of the T800 FPU? Jan