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| From | Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Transputer |
| Date | 2019-06-15 23:07 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <gmlc2dFfanlU6@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <qa0rnm$1t58$1@gioia.aioe.org> <qe3j2r$458$1@gioia.aioe.org> |
On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:05:47 +0000, Steve555 wrote: > On 2019-04-27, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote: >> Retrotechtacular: Transputer by: Jenny List, April 19, 2019 - >> https://hackaday.com/2019/04/19/retrotechtacular-transputer/ >> >> "Back in 2016, Hackaday published a review of The National Museum >> of Computing, at Bletchley Park. It mentions among the fascinating >> array of computer artifacts on display a single box that could be >> found in the corner of a room alongside their Cray-1 supercomputer. >> This was a Transputer development system, and though its architecture >> is almost forgotten today there was a time when this British-developed >> microprocessor family had a real prospect of representing the future >> of computing. So what on earth was the Transputer, why was it special, >> and why don't we have one on every > > My uni had some transputer projects, both in the comp sci department and > the electronics dept. It had its own language called Occam. Parallelism > was a big thing in algorithm research at the time, which this hardware > was designed to execute. People were using them for things like high > performance image processing and robotics. We had a lot of transputer research going on, and a large Mieko computing surface. Not my thing, but a close colleague was involved. Occam survived the exit of the Meiko, and Occam-Pi was still being taught about 4 years ago. Then the colleague left, just after me. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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Transputer Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-04-27 06:09 +0000
Re: Transputer Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-04-27 09:08 +0100
Re: Transputer Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-27 11:28 +0000
Re: Transputer Steve555 <Steve555@bogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-15 20:05 +0000
Re: Transputer Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-06-15 23:07 +0000
Re: Transputer Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-16 22:54 +0000
Re: Transputer Stephen Hall <s__hall@gmail.com> - 2019-06-17 03:50 +0000
Re: Transputer Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-06-17 20:23 +0000
Re: Transputer kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-18 09:43 -0400
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