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There was a range of transputer addons and dedicated systems all the way up to the very pretty and very expensive Meiko Computing Surface[1] with something like
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
There was a range of transputer addons and dedicated systems all the way up to the very pretty and very expensive Meiko Computing Surface[1] with something like 100 (300? honestly can't remember) transputers in it. It seemed, for a while, like they were being shoehorned into everything. There was a distinct belief that transputers were the way the future was going. I think the expectation was before too long everything would gain a set of transputers as replacement to a single one thread CPU, or in addition to, much like machines gained graphics cards.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiko_Scientific#Computing_Surface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiko_Scientific#Computing_Sur...
Seem to remember there was once a dedicated page with pictures, could be mistaken, but if there was it's been deleted. Such is Wikipedia "progress".
- UncleSlacky 7y agoI had an encounter with a Meiko Computing Surface (64 or 128 Transputers, I think?) around 1990, as I was studying Occam at the time. It was impressive to watch it rendering high-res 3D fractal landscapes in real time.
- linker3000 7y agoDitto a few years before that - we had a Meiko box in the visuals R&D dept of the flight simulator company where I was doing my electronic engineering apprenticeship, although I didn't really get hands-on with it.