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Was dying for an explanation of what the hell it is, here's that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
by QuadrupleA 3y ago
Was dying for an explanation of what the hell it is, here's that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
- raldi 3y agoThanks. The first three words on the page should be, "A transputer is..."
- foobiekr 3y agoIt's an alternate timeline, basically. Had Inmos not fallen off a cliff after the T800 with a wicked case of second system syndrome (I know that the T9k wasn't their second system, but it has all the hallmarks) things might have gone differently, earlier. Unless I'm mistaken, the only thing that lasted was the // single line comment syntax from Occam.
- fanf2 3y ago// came from BCPL https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/bcpl.pdf https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/bcpl.pdf
- foobiekr 3y agoWow you are right. That's crazy, I actually had to learn BCPL because early AmigaDos still had a lot of BCPL content and I seem to have forgotten. Thanks for the correction.
- noman-land 3y ago'The name, from "transistor" and "computer"), was selected to indicate the role the individual transputers would play: numbers of them would be used as basic building blocks in a larger integrated system, just as transistors had been used in earlier designs.'