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This came as a complete surprise to the folks at Atari HQ in Sunnyvale. Well, certainly the engineers who were working on the ST and the 8-bit line. It could be
by kabdib 6y ago
This came as a complete surprise to the folks at Atari HQ in Sunnyvale. Well, certainly the engineers who were working on the ST and the 8-bit line. It could be that upper management knew. But us worker-bee types, a truly WTF moment.
"We announced a new computer!"
[collective response:] "WHAT?!"
Never got my hands on one. I regret that a little. The Transputer was a seriously interesting architecture. (I was never impressed with Occam, though).
- butterisgood 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam-%CF%80 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam-%CF%80 Seems interesting to me.
- __d 6y agoHelios (the OS of the ATW) came with a port of GCC. It was, ironically, hard to use Occam on the ATW. I think you could also get Fortran, Modula2 and Ada compilers for Helios.