Surviving UK Transputer systems...

[Joe R.]

At 09:37 AM 11/4/04 -0500, you wrote:
>The transputer CPU was made by INMOS (which was later bought out by
>SGS-Thompson which became ST-Microelectronics).  However, there were several
>manufacturers of transputer equipment.  Some of the popular ones are INMOS,
>Transtech, Niche, Parsytec, Sundance, and Parsys.  See the specs page for a
>list of vendors.  This is not complete at all and only contains vendors I
>have info on.  What type of INMOS stuff do you have???

   I have some very high speed memory (at least for it's day!) And IIRC I
have a couple huge boards full of GAPP processors. IIRC there are two
boards about 24" square and there's several thousand GAPP procesors on them.

    Joe


>
>Thanks,
>
>Ram
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe R. [mailto:rigdonj at cfl.rr.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 9:11 AM
>To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>Subject: RE: Surviving UK Transputer systems...
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>At 08:17 AM 11/4/04 -0500, Ram wrote:
>>A transputer is just like any other processor with memory, etc, etc.  
>>Except that it has two unique attributes:
>>
>>1) Has communication links so that you can hook it up to other 
>>transputer nodes (or other peripherals).  This allowed you to create a 
>>multiprocessor system with several nodes (seen transputer networks of 
>>1024 nodes at one time).  It was like LEGO for parallel processing.  
>>The technology that was designed for the transputer is  now slowing 
>>creaping into modern processors. Not bad for a mid 80's processor....
>>
>>2) Has micro-coded scheduler which allows you to create multi-processes 
>>inside a single CPU.  It supported two priorities in high and low.  You
>>could do parallel processing in assembly with this baby!   This is all
>>embedded inside the CPU core.  Designed around the mid 80's and had an 
>>EOL
>>(End-of-life) around the late 90's.  Quite a remarkable CPU and it was
>quite
>>fast too compared to the 386 of that era.  See my website at
>>http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer for more info/links...
>
>
>   I looked at the data sheets on your website so that I would know that the
>parts and part numbers looked like. Does anyone other that INMOS and
>Thompson make these?  I find lots of parallel computing equipment so there
>should be some transputer stuff in there too. I have found a lot of high
>speed parallel stuff with INMOS parts but I think it's older (early 80s)
>than the transputers. But the transputer stuff should show up one day.
>
>    Joe
>
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