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Offline Zac67

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Re: Any Transputer boards still out there?
« on: October 17, 2011, 07:09:27 PM »
The transputer was the Amiga of CPU architectures: years ahead of its competition, a high-performance-by-simple-design approach, highly influental on future developments and extremely cool - but sadly, nearly forgotten today...

btw: did you know that AmigaDOS (the DOS part in AmigaOS) was ported from TRIPOS which was also developed on to become HeliOS, the transputer OS?
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Re: Any Transputer boards still out there?
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2011, 07:40:01 AM »
Quote from: matthey;663930
The parallelism of the transputer may have been influential for superscalarity, SIMD, multi-cores, multi-threading and cluster computing. I wouldn't exactly say those are forgotten ;).


The influences are there, of course. I was referring to the the chips themselves. ;)
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