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I remember getting excited about the Atari Transputer [1] in my 520ST days - later on I was lucky enough to do a unit on Occam running on a real T800 - way back

by lttlrck 13y ago

I remember getting excited about the Atari Transputer [1] in my 520ST days - later on I was lucky enough to do a unit on Occam running on a real T800 - way back in 1992. They could have based an entire semester on the concepts INMOS introduced with that little processor. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation

kabdib 13y ago
Ha. The Atari Transputer (the Abaq) was an utter surprise to us folks in Atari engineering in Sunnyvale. One day there was a press release, and some Atari folks (that I never knew existed) had apparently decided to ship a Transputer-based personal computer. I thought it was cool, but the Tramiels had other ideas.
- jacquesm 13y ago
  As a former owner of a 520 and a 1040 thanks a ton! That was my first machine with a linear address space capable of doing more than 64K, it opened up a whole world for me.
  - sitkack 13y ago
    Sorry to turbo the thread, but perhaps the device you were wondering about in your post is from http://www.xmos.com/products/xkits http://www.xmos.com/products/xkits ? The folks that created the Transputer have created a similar embedded processor.
    - jacquesm 13y ago
      Yep, that's the one!
- mdda 13y ago
  It takes me back too... In 1990(?) I worked as a summer intern in the Cambridge UK offices of Perihelion, who were the UK designers/distributors (or something) for the Atari Transputer Workstation. We (the interns) spent the summer building cool demos of the hardware for a show in the Autumn. Shortly thereafter (possibly due to some other medical devices project overrunning badly), the company went under, and one of the other interns and I bought the contents of the building at auction in April/May. We were fortunate enough to know that "Box 7 : Electronics" happened to contain a bunch of T800s. So we spent the next summer cold-calling Perihelion's customer list ('Box 27 : Papers') and giving people some great deals. Those were the days...

by lttlrck 13y ago

kabdib 13y ago

Ha. The Atari Transputer (the Abaq) was an utter surprise to us folks in Atari engineering in Sunnyvale. One day there was a press release, and some Atari folks (that I never knew existed) had apparently decided to ship a Transputer-based personal computer. I thought it was cool, but the Tramiels had other ideas.

jacquesm 13y ago
As a former owner of a 520 and a 1040 thanks a ton! That was my first machine with a linear address space capable of doing more than 64K, it opened up a whole world for me.
- sitkack 13y ago
  Sorry to turbo the thread, but perhaps the device you were wondering about in your post is from http://www.xmos.com/products/xkits http://www.xmos.com/products/xkits ? The folks that created the Transputer have created a similar embedded processor.
  - jacquesm 13y ago
    Yep, that's the one!
mdda 13y ago
It takes me back too... In 1990(?) I worked as a summer intern in the Cambridge UK offices of Perihelion, who were the UK designers/distributors (or something) for the Atari Transputer Workstation. We (the interns) spent the summer building cool demos of the hardware for a show in the Autumn. Shortly thereafter (possibly due to some other medical devices project overrunning badly), the company went under, and one of the other interns and I bought the contents of the building at auction in April/May. We were fortunate enough to know that "Box 7 : Electronics" happened to contain a bunch of T800s. So we spent the next summer cold-calling Perihelion's customer list ('Box 27 : Papers') and giving people some great deals. Those were the days...