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Re: Transputer

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On 2019-06-15, Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> wrote:
> 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.
>
I think at the time there were lots of projects funded by the
UK government 'Alvey' program, including a lot of AI stuff.
And some of that money got used for all the transputer projects.

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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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