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I love the Z80 too, and Turbo Pascal! In 1980 I was writing custom comm software for TRS-80 then Kaypro and Vector Graphic model 3. Palo Alto Research Center and this activity also ended. Unfortunately for the Department, Weiser soon left for a research position at Xerox Several variations were built and tested on Sun workstations, but the concept never becameįully operational. The need to move the hands off the keyboard in order to control Instead of using a mouseĬontrolled by the hand, a foot pedal was developed, eliminating Mark Weiser’s foot “mole” of 1986 was another interesting That suppported most of the development ended, work slowly Work continued for several years, but after the NSF grant Initial design work for a further advancement,Ĭalled Chessie, was started, but a prototype Chessie was neverīuilt. Motorola 68010 processor, called McMob, was built and used for
ZED CUSTOM MOUSE POINTER 32 BIT
16 bit and 32 bit versions of Zmob wereĭesigned, and a 16 node ring of 16-bit processors using the The Z80s were 8-bit processors and became Hide many of the complexities of the Zmob hardware.ĭue to inexperience in hardware design, Zmob ran, but not as Was the operating system designed to run on Zmob, which would Programming in Prolog like languages was seen as the mechanism for using Zmob. Version consisting of 128 moblets was built and installed in theĭepartment laboratory (Figure 3.13). Users could also run PRISM in a sequential Prolog-like manner.Ĭontinued Zmob research was funded by this grant and a
Statistics were collected to determine howĮffective the search strategy was. The number of machines to handle executable procedures. Number of problem solving machines (i.e., moblets) to use, the number of database machines to use, and Logic (similar to the design of Prolog) to implement AND/OR parallelism.
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Software system designed to run on Zmob, and was run as a simulator on the VAX. PRISM, under the direction of Minker, was the core of the CER project. Laboratory, purchasing machines tove, gyre and gymble, as discussed earlier. This grant greatly expanded the departmental A Coordinated Experimental Research (CER) proposal was written to NSF,Īnd in 1983 it was funded as a 5-year $4.3M grant. They met and came up with the idea of a parallel computation laboratory, using some of the ideas In 1982 Basili organized a proposal team, consisting of Agrawala, Minker, Rosenfeld, Stewart, and Our own machines, our research in this area would always be hampered. Computers were our technology and if we couldn’t have and control We needed terminals on every desk, additional machines like Mimsy, and a Minker was behind the acquisition of the VAX 11/780 (Mimsy) in 1980, which was a good That to be a top department, we needed moreĮquipment. (after addressing the crush of student majors) It was apparent to both Minker and Basili Research grant was obtained for building the Were passed from one processor (or “moblet”) Ring architecture), as packets of information On a “conveyor belt” (a 48-bit wide slotted The initialĮach contained 64K memory, linked together (Figure 3.12) designed a computing system to Laboratory for Parallel Computation and Z-MOB Maybe Bob Bane has some color photos! It ran a "Dining Philosophers" simulation that did a lot of cool blinking, and I ported FIG-FORTH to it, which was great for writing LED blinking programs. Sorry, the only photo I have is monochrome (linked above). >The fastest Z80 computer ever designed and built was almost certainly ZMOB, a 256 node Z80A cluster designed and built at University of Maryland as part of NASA NSG-7253. ZMOB's hardware with ideas about where and how it The paper attempts to blend a description of Opens some new areas of exploration in object-oriented modeling,Įxpert systems, intelligent sensing and robotics,Īnd distributed perceptual and cognitive modeling. Interprocessor communications bandwidth, andĮxternal communications and sensing channels, ZMOB Throughput (100 million instructions/sec), largeĬumulative high speed memory (16 megabytes), high Large number of processors, high computational Speed, interprocessor communications system called
ZMOB, under currentĬonstruction and scheduled for completion lateįall 1981, is a 256 processor machine with a high Chuck Rieger, Randy Trigg, Bob BaneĪ new research multiprocessor named ZMOB isĭescribed, and its significance to AI research is Sounds like 1/16th of a ZMOB! ("The computer of the future, using the processor of the past.")