Yes, but in the areas I saw at the time, transputers lost out in particular to i860 for floating point systems and to m68k for things like our mostly-integer "s

Yes, but in the areas I saw at the time, transputers lost out in particular to i860 for floating point systems and to m68k for things like our mostly-integer "streaming map-reduce" -- it seems! -- system. (Being able to house 68ks in a blade system, i.e. VME/VXI crates, helped.)