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- From: r_voisey@beans.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: An idea...?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.094949.221@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:49:49 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.103414.29205@aston.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov13.103414.29205@aston.ac.uk>, braindl@uhura.aston.ac.uk (DL BRAIN) writes:
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- |> You can fit a PC on a card inside your arc so how possible would an ARC card be
- |> Ie giving you two processors, two main memories etc. This would have to work a
- |> How possible is it..it might be quite handy, double the memory, and the ability
- |> to farm out stuff that might hang the machine up for a bit (printing/archiving)
- |> to a second processor.
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- It's easy to do, and has been done by Patrick Arnold. He may or may not be
- releasing it as a product in the future. He'll certainly be using it as an
- accelerator option on his new ---*Chromaburst video frame stores.
-
- If anyone's interested, there's also a DSP processor board available, which
- includes a native DDE based assembler. It was developed for and is being
- marketted by Burden Neuroscience.
-
- Cheers
-
- Bob
-
- NB I don't work for PCATS or the BNI.
-
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