#transputers — Public Fediverse posts

I've spent days trying to work out why Inmos TDS3 compresses all its output onto one line on RISC OS. Turns out it's a TDS bug!
If TDS hadn't been open-sourced I'd never have found it.

If the GOTO X/Y definition in the ITERM (termcap) file ends with a X or Y coordinate substitution, its offset parameter will be sent as a literal byte instead of the coordinate!

The workaround is to end the definition with at least one literal character, e.g. a null.

#transputer #transputers #retrocomputing

Hmmm. I hooked Link0 of a Transtech TTM15F-85-F module up to the host card, and it's flagging Error and failing to communicate. I can see the peek command on LinkIn but no reply on LinkOut. Very odd. #transputer #Transputers

My new mug processes in parallel. #Transputer #transputers

The last thing I expected when looking up a piece of chip art[1] at lunchtime was to find that it's Fat Freddy's Cat, from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

I guess the Inmos engineers needed a break after finishing the chip layout.

1: http://people.cs.bris.ac.uk/~dave/S42image.jpg top right, credit David May, http://people.cs.bris.ac.uk/~dave/transputer.html
#transputer #inmos #transputers

Uh oh, I may have gone down a new nerdy rabbit hole.
#transputers

The sheer level of #retrocomputing nerdery. Now I've got books about Transputers. #Transputer #Inmos #Transputers