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In a way Inmos’s fate probably saved Arm. SGS Thomson was one of the companies Acorn spoke with when trying to find a home for the Acorn RISC Machine but having
by klelatti 4y ago
In a way Inmos’s fate probably saved Arm. SGS Thomson was one of the companies Acorn spoke with when trying to find a home for the Acorn RISC Machine but having already bought Inmos there was no appetite. If they had bought it then the ISA might have survived but I’d be astonished if it were anywhere near as successful.
PS I used transputers in a financial modelling application in the late 1990s (PROPHET) where it was used to deliver cost effective floating point performance.