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HeliOS and transputers is one of the most interesting systems ever; if you use Golang and/or know 9front and concurrency you'll be at home, because it was concu
by anthk 5mo ago
HeliOS and transputers is one of the most interesting systems ever; if you use Golang and/or know 9front and concurrency you'll be at home, because it was concurrent and multicore literally by design where the CPU 'cores' synced themselves with messages.
https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv4n4/transputer.html https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv4n4/transputer.html
They were pretty much ahead of time with multiprocessing.
- andreww591 5mo agoHelios unfortunately isn't yet included. Last time I checked the Transputer emulator doesn't support the special Helios I/O server protocol, which is different from the one that the usual occam software used. It's on my long list of emulators/OSes to fix/finish though.
- anthk 5mo agoThere's some transputer emulator/OS from Biyubi/the Toledo family (the Nanochess guy): https://github.com/nanochess/transputer https://github.com/nanochess/transputer First article in the series: https://nanochess.org/pascal.html https://nanochess.org/pascal.html