#transputer — Public Fediverse posts
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Slides eines Talks über Transputer aus 2013. Zwei Seiten Quellen und Links, die Titel im Verzeichnis sind vielversprechend. Locker die Hälfte der Links sind 2026 kaputt, Dokumente, Seiten oder ganze Sites verschwunden. Ja, Wayback-Machine existiert, ist aber teilweise mühsam und kennt auch nicht mehr alles. Ich mache mir mittlerweile von jedem Schnipsel, den ich später mal vielleicht noch brauchen könnte, ein PDF für das lokale Archiv. #transputer #vintagecomputing
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At last, my #transputer project is ready to share!
I've written a program in the #occam language that uses a network of seven transputers ('80s/'90s UK CPUs for parallel processing) to simulate a flying flag --- much faster than the IBM PC/AT 286 host computer could do it, I think! (So #doscember too!)
I've also written a long writeup on how it works, with background on transputing and occam.
This was a really enjoyable project, so I hope it makes for fun reading!
YouTube teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY-cUEJT1XQ
Writeup@GitHub: https://github.com/stepleton/flag/blob/main/README.md -
My daughter is visiting for the weekend and has this book from her college library.
In the mid 80s there was a CPU called the transputer.
It was designed to be ubiquitous (like the transistor I guess) and had some interesting ideas around parallelism, but it didn't really catch on.
The transputer was programmed in Occam which seems to be quite low level. There's very little in the way of types (words and arrays of words), but the concept of channels is built in.
I found myself wondering if Occam influenced Erlang, but they seem to have been invented around the same time.
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A mahoosive PNG of all microprocessors ever - and crowdsourced! So anyone could add the missing ones: #ferranti and #inmos for example. Go #transputer!
