Well, Occam was interesting, but nothing I wanted to program in. Not really. I thought it was really cool that you could take a Transputer chip, add 5V and Gnd

Well, Occam was interesting, but nothing I wanted to program in. Not really. I thought it was really cool that you could take a Transputer chip, add 5V and Gnd and a couple discretes and have a working computer. Add wires to other Transputers, maybe some DRAM, and you had a nice computing surface. The instruction set was pretty neat; some very odd but interesting ideas. I don't know how you would get superscaler-class performance out of a stack machine, though. I wish they'd done the same package-level tricks (+5V and a capacitor and go) to an ARM; that would have been lots more compelling. Occam was just too damned strange to catch on, and the C compiler I had for my T400 was one of the worst that I ever used.