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Re: Transputer

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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.

Steve555

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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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