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I learned about the Transputer from Byte Magazine, probably by reading one of Dick Pountain's articles. I thought it was interesting enough that I wrote Inmos
by curtis 9y ago
I learned about the Transputer from Byte Magazine, probably by reading one of Dick Pountain's articles. I thought it was interesting enough that I wrote Inmos to see if I could get some free documentation. I think I must have filled out a standard form, because I remember that they wanted to know what kind of professional role I had. I just wrote "student" and they sent me a bunch of stuff anyway, but the paperwork that came back said I was a "consultant", which I found rather amusing.
Alas, Transputers were on the way out at that point (probably they were never on the way in), so I never got to actually work with one.
They still seem pretty cool, but in a decidedly retro way now.
- walkingolof 9y agoPersonally, I was drooling over the Atari ATW, it was more or less a Atari Mega ST with a transputer daughter board and the (at the time) awesome graphic chip "Blossom". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation
- sitkack 9y agoFunny. I did the same thing, in high school I wrote to ST Microelectronics who had purchased Inmos about transputer documentation. They sent me a small refrigerator sized box of manuals. The onboard scheduler and instruction set format was amazing.
- earenndil 9y agoHow long ago was this? Do you suppose they would still have such things if I asked them now?
- sitkack 9y agoI doubt it, but you could try. Nearly all of them are available on https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22transputer%22 https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22transputer... and http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/inmos/transputer/ http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/inmos/transputer/