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The Advanced Development Group at NCR Cambridge, OH was using Minix in their GNOME project in 1987. The GNOME project was an attempt to accelerate object oriented programs and increase processing power on NCR Tower computers. The main goal was to develop a Multibus hardware accelerator card with three Transputer processors(T800's) on them. This hardware accelerator design experimented with a new MMU and cache design that supported object oriented paging and object caching. We initially ported Minix to this Transputer hardware accelerator board. The port took two months but we had Minix running and distributed over 3 Transputers. We also had the previously mentioned licensing difficulty with Prentice Hall, but that did not kill the project. Management kill the project and reassigned us to other projects that had more pressing neeeds.
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The Advanced Development Group at NCR Cambridge, OH was using Minix in their GNOME project in 1987. The GNOME project was an attempt to accelerate object oriented programs and increase processing power on NCR Tower computers. The main goal was to develop a Multibus hardware accelerator card with three Transputer processors(T800's) on them. This hardware accelerator design experimented with a new MMU and cache design that supported object oriented paging and object caching. We initially ported Minix to this Transputer hardware accelerator board. The port took two months but we had Minix running and distributed over 3 Transputers. We also had the previously mentioned licensing difficulty with Prentice Hall, but that did not kill the project. Management kill the project and reassigned us to other projects that had more pressing neeeds.