#: 17741 S1/General Interest
    16-Mar-93  05:05:16
Sb: #I NEED YOUR HELP!
Fm: VINCENZO ROVEDA 100024,1335
To: ALL

Dear  Friends, I am looking for your help to solve our problem! I work at SEPA,
an Italian electronic company, in the Image Processing department. We are
currently involved in a large european robotic project, where I'm the
responsible for the Vision part. The system we have used to develop our
algorithms is composed of some Image Processing boards (Digicolor, Roi-Store,
Vfir-MkII from DATACUBE), one INMOS B014 board with 6 T800 transputer module
plugged onto it and a SUN3E as CPU and VME bus master running UNIX as Operating
System. Everything worked perfectly.

Unfortunately, we have been convinced to change this architecture in order to
cope with the real-time problems of a real application. As UNIX is not a
real-time operating system, we have decided to use OS9 and conseguently we have
replaced the SUN3E board with the MOTOROLA MVME147-SA-1. The big problem now,
is that we don't have the software drivers both for the DATACUBE boards and for
the INMOS one, as the two companies don't support this operating system.
Actually Datacube supported it once, but not anymore, so that they provided us
a partial set of source codes, leaving the work to test and debug them, to us.
However Inmos was not able to give us anything and we are really in big
troubles as we don't know where to start to solve the situation. I apologize to
have bothered you with my sad story, but now you represent my last hope.

If you should ever heard about someone using OS9 with DATACUBE and/or INMOS
boards, please, let me know how to contact them : I will greatly appreciate
your help! Thank you very much!

Vincenzo Roveda (100024,1335) Tel  : + 39 11 2682517 Fax  : + 39 11 2420372



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