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Atari actually built a Transputer workstation in 1989. Quite the curiosity when it was announced! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12995277 https://news.yc
by car 4y ago
Atari actually built a Transputer workstation in 1989. Quite the curiosity when it was announced!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12995277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12995277
Edit: Europe had a rather large Atari ST scene, since Macs were prohibitively expensive. So anything Atari got a lot of publicity. I remember reading a bunch of articles about the Transputer.
- car 4y agoThis 2021 HN post is about the Atari Transputer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26488501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26488501
- djmips 4y agoI thought the Atari transputer would be my next big thing after the 6502, and the 68000 but sadly that never came to pass...
- ac50hz 4y agoLet's not forget the OS that the Atari Transputer Workstation used, HeliOS... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeliOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeliOS https://github.com/axelmuhr/Helios-NG https://github.com/axelmuhr/Helios-NG
- gnufx 4y agoI remember it being pretty interesting when the book (manual?) on it was passed round locally.