Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 Winnipeg free october 1985 Micro world Transputer Chip tackles Many functions sunday London the battered British microchip has launched a device crucial to its future the Success will turn inmost into a major Force in the world semiconductor failure will con sign the company for the foresee Able future to the minor league not what its founder or its original the National Enterprise intended when they set up the company in 1 put the Transputer chances of becoming a world beater at about one in says Lann founder of he is More for the Transputer is very much a Chip off his particular my main Moti vation in setting up inmost was to develop the he you cant do that sort of thing without your own competitive Price the Transputer is a Complete computer memory and communications on a single giant it is it and it can be produced at a competitive there is no doubt the electronics Industry is going to have to turn to Transputer like de vices one the vital question is when inmost future turns on whether designers Are yet ready for such a revolutionary for the Transputer demands a completely new approach to the de sign of computers and related hard the designers Basic building blocks used to be individual Transis with the Advent of integrated circuits Silicon chips elements Able to carry out Complete logical operations became the building bigger and bigger chips have included More and More logic but conceptually the approach has remained the Transputer is it represents a building Block of a new level of Power and Complex says it makes it feasible to plug together literally hundreds or thousand of com before computers will have to be built in this because the traditional architecture is pushing up an impassable virtually All computers have operated carrying out a single instruction at a the physics of electronic devices imposes an absolute limit on the Speed at which instructions can be pushed through this the limit almost has been yet the demand for Ever greater processing Power continues the solution has been obvious for years remove the bottleneck by carrying out Many instructions is parallel As this is not Only increases the absolute Speed of supermom it also is naturally suited to Many of the applications of computing now pre occupying re searchers and the Industry Robo natural language speech artificial intelligence All the things lumped together As fifth generation designing and programming computers so that tasks can be split up into operations that can be car ried out and keep ing track of those is very amounting almost to the fresh the Transputer is a natural building Block for parallel a company called set up by Exinos already has demonstrated the Transputer to conventional method Mentor controller 4 bidirectional communications links above a conventional with different functions on separate chips below the Allione Transputer with multiple communications Tennial by using it to in Only Minicomputer that appeared just when minis were beginning to take off computer technology did not tasks can be Between interconnected Transputer nine the fastest computer Ever produced in capable of instructions per second even a single Transputer is Capa ble of 10 making it Many times faster than comparable i it also can be programmed in Standard barrens career in the computer Industry has made him Only to Well aware that the right product at the right time is no guarantee of Suc he began by designing the logic system for the successful Elliott 803 computer while still an undergraduate at he joined Elliott full time after Gra but left in aged with several of his to set up a new computer tech spite of a Good product a take off with we lacked the Market base to compete with the says the company still is in business under a different but Barron left in 1970 to become a soon he happened to meet Dick an american who wanted to set up a new Compa he said if you can raise some of the Money you can have part of the operation in Barron Barron went to the i invited them to Back a new with the american connection As a Way of getting into the they agreed within an if i produced an adequate business inmost ended As a company owned mainly by the British gov though with half its operations in the when the conservatives came to ideologically opos sed to the state As inmost be came something of a political foot during the troubles that Fol Petrit and the other american founder sold and Thorn Emi took Over the nebs with the Transputer As the joker in the on the plus there is great momentum towards supermom particularly in the and says Ian Mackintosh of Mackintosh the electronics the Star wars program is giving it an extra on the minus there is what i Call the designer coupling in the and Chip makers Are in constant touch with leading Edge they get a tremendous amount of feedback before they launch a Europe does not understand designer it is a problem of which Barron is Well he has made sure that people know the Transputer is we have had an acclimatization program for four or five there is a lot of interest from people who want to do heavy for things like pattern signal processing and and from the but a few Hundred people experimenting is not a mass for this to designers All Over the world will have to make the mental leap to the the rest of the Industry apparently does not think they Are ready to do similar product i am not even by hints or of any other company developing a similar which must be rather worrying for says has a different explanation of the Lack of compete companies like Intel and to which dominates the Micro processor Are committed to existing they cannot go Over to something like the Transputer without abandoning most of their whoever is the Transputer looks like having a substantial which amounts to time to establish the first thing the opposition will do is rubbish says bar then if it does Well they will say we can do it but we hold some key ism packs More memory in revised pc at Boca ism unveiled an expanded version of its Topo theline pc at last week in an apparent attempt to keep the machine one step ahead of the mounting the new listed at can store about 10 million More characters than the version introduced a year that Means an additional double typed pages of storage capacity through its 30megabyte hard disk the original pc at is listed at and has a 20megabyte disk analysts interpreted the move As a Way for ism to Call attention to its pc at at a time when other com Puter such As Xerox and Are introducing at compatible machines that Are faster and have greater storage capacity than ibis on line by products such As pacemaker and the laser writer Printer for the pacemaker allows users to Lay out pages on the macintosh screen and prepare Small publications for combined with apples laser writer products such As pacemaker can replace Ventura president John who until last week was Dris director of says that Venturas planned product will provide output of similar Quality and characteristics to it will be sold via direct marketing to laser Printer owners and the publications departments in Large other distribution plans could include some sort of joint Deal with Dri or other Manu computer they Are accused of copying video games such As Donkey Kong and As Well As word processing packages for business elder said if the men Are convicted of All 50 offences they each face a possible total Fine of court appearances Are scheduled for oct 17 and the computer innovations and 44 Independent Commodore has an the Amiga is commodores powerful new computer based on the Motorola 68000 the Chip that runs apples in the there have been doubts about How Many specially computer chains would agree to handle the pc tools to the Rescue pc sales Rise 11 per cent publishing unit planned men face piracy charges Monterrey Ventura a recently formed spinoff of digital re search plans to bring out a desktop publishing program in the product will work with Dris Gem operating system for the ism pc and desktop publishing has been popularized Calgary two men have been charged Here with 50 counts of trying to sell copies of copyrighted game and word pro Messing James David Kyle and Eric Andrew both were charged under the Federal copyright act with exposing for Sale an infringing copy of a copyrighted Portland Central Point has introduced a Ory resident Utility set for ism pcs and like the popular Norton Central Points pc tools will Rescue deleted files and perform a variety of other housekeeping disk pc tools also can be made to remain in memory while other programs Are behaving like sidekick style a spokesman for the company said that when the memory resident feature is the program occupies about 128k bytes of chains will carry Amiga Toronto the Commodore Amiga will be carried by three quarters of the computer land stores in As Well As san Jose a Survey just released by Market researcher future computing said unit sales in computer specially stores climbed 11 per cent in August compared with the Compaq product line led the trend with a 21 per cent unit sales of personal computers from ism increased 17 per Compaq and ism had huge gains in sales this August compared with August sales of Apple computers but Only one per August How Mark the fourth straight month of better Mac future computing re garnered a seven Pei cent in crease in unit sales Between july and the verb invaders shift into fast Lane Chi speak new York times t i he fact is i think i am a wrote the dying Ulysses Grant to his instead of a personal a verb is anything that signifies to be to do or to i signify All the fact i think he would have left us a puncher quotation without the first five but no editor stepped in to make it read i am a verb even Grants self identification with a verb showed he understood the essence of that part of speech no no you just sit and like George after a Short period of while wish Washy writers in passive voices lolled around in bureaucratic constructions the program was implement the verb is Back with a sixty second managers shift to the Active voice to implement and their two second bark a gut sier action word do that the super or split second Dot redline the responsibility to and straight line the reporting to the other relationship huh a dotted line denotes a non Fierar Chical As Between two executives in the same Echelon or on different Levels exchanging information rather than but a Vogue verb in executive suites is to dotted line which is a verb meaning Tell but its not an new verbs Are being coined every like body the alien verbs Are investing and seizing the souls of every interesting new were looking to fast track Maines department of transportation planning director Gedeon Picher told the times Only the fast track was one of the hottest nouns in until it was shunted aside and passed by the fast on language William satire now its up out of the cinders and Back in the trendy running As a to and will soon be if history by to i detect a shading of difference you fast track a pro but fast Lane a Welcome to life in the fast the last two cars of this train will not platform at Talmadge announces the Fred Mcclafferty of Ayer in new York sends that urging Resis and adds that he will fight two other new to Parent and to that advertising Agency is trying to style itself n w Ayer on its eschewing the stands for Nathan and the founders name demands but the graphic design ers at the Agency evidently do not plat form at other lexicographic irregulars wince at such Bac formations As to surveilled and to activities that the French might consider and some High tech types shudder at to satellite or even to Julian Bercovici of Hollywood sends me a statement he received from group w Cable announcing service charges will be state rented the 22 of each a spokesman for the Gas station owners of new York was quoted As there seems to be a tremendous movement to exodus the Here is one of Manhattan District attorney Robert Morgenthau comments on the subway vigilantes Case we Post Mort emed this thing to the verb invaders have accessorized the fashion concerti Zed around the funeral Zed their main streamed their Leaf eted their neighbourhood and credentialed their Cov i know this because Ive sourced the new verbs threaten to an Stout their As the new functional shift confuses the what Cooks with this rampant ver Ifica Tion of nouns As the Vogue verb set would put what rotis ses Here my col leagues in column also Are shuddering at the nominal body snatching i think its Worth wondering about role wrote Ellen Goodman in the Boston or about role modelling if you belong to the net working school of Harold Schonberg of the new York times takes Issue with an Atlanta editor who said fresh news mooted the says Harold i Hoot at the Sunset legislation and Phil Gailey of the times noted How governors like to Sunset legislation and compliment each other for propounding the am i demagogic a or cheap shotting to suggest the Vogue Everberg Are accessing let us Chew this Over with William Kretzschmar of the University of who edits the journal of English he applies two tests to the functional one of the other of logic and of for i ask whether the form offers any new Shade of i think it since the action of a commentator is specialized we noncom Menta tors can but you commentators can comment ate because of your special position and in the same he likes admin Istrate because he detects a Shade of meaning different from but he rejects orientate on aesthetic grounds it seems to me an ugly duplication of to hell buy a locution like lunches Are satellite from the regional High but does not countenance to dialogue be cause i find it impossible to see How any subject person or group could unilaterally impose a dialogue on or with some body linguist Kretzschmar adds i make such and should just believe in the doctrine of but i cant help it wont abdicate my own right to decide what i am willing to say or nobody can deny a nonce verb its moment in the and sometimes they come to though some people still Grump about Grump from the noun probably out of the verbs to Grunt and to so Why not use the old grumble because grumble kind of and Grump jumps and my advice is to take it a Case at a uniqueness does the new verb do a Job that no other word does i cannot think of an exact synonym for to cheap to exodus sounds but it does not mean merely to rather to leave in droves i might use if i had not used a you every in a previous Page of and if i had just used leave in aesthetics prioritize strikes me As and priority would Proba Bly because the word is used Duffily by Prissy anybody who nut Shell ought to be boiled because such Finger snapping locutions have the ring of and overuse of the shift puts too Many of your men in motion you cannot Host and a sep in the same sentence without tradition if two words like make Clear do the semantic use or use a standby like specify or illuminate if that is precisely what you mean but do not Strain for Disambiguate just to be in academic and before you reach for ask yourself will Dis courage do at the same if a new verb has lasted a few dont take it upon yourself to give it the functional to to to to position All have made it out of so Start accessing Interior designer news weve been sleuthing the sources to bring you the Best of whats new in the Market whether decorating or just rejuvenating requires careful we can 9420445 touch of the Orient enhance your Home with the Beauty and elegance of Oriental Penthouse is importing a new kind of Oriental carpet that is made of 700 natural the is a Plant Fibre that has traditionally been used As carpet backing material because of its durability and for these very it is now being used to make the pile of the carpets As Well As the being similar in appearance to this Fibre is heavier yet substantially less the carpets Are there Are 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