Symbolics co-processor board for the Sparcstation-1 ?

[Eric Ho]

Having seen Symbolics' recent ad about their co-processor board for the
Suns I'm wondering if anyone at Symbolics is developing similiar stuff for
the pizzabox (Sparcstation-1) ?  It would be nice if Symbolics can find a
way to use existing memory on the Suns rather than using their own tagged
memory -- it all depends on how the Sun "sees" the co-processor board and
how the board is used I guess.  I mean, those who are opting for the
co-processor boards might already have quite a bit of memory stuffed on
their desktop and it is a bad idea I guess if that can't be used by the
co-processor board.  Without the 10 meg of RAM on the co-processor board I
think that the price for the board (& the developement system) may drop
quite a bit -- I mean, it is ridiculous to move (or buy) a 3 mips deskside
3/160 and buy a $21K co-processor board into your office when you already
got a less than $9K 8~16meg 13 mips pizzabox with on your desk -- it just
doesn't make sense (especially when the board is more expensive than a
deskside unit let alone the pizzabox).

Eric Ho
Cognitive Science Lab.,		Princeton University
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