@InProceedings{EdwardsLawson91, title = "{T}he advancements of transputers and occam", author= "Edwards, Janet and Lawson, Philip", editor= "Edwards, Janet", pages = "1--12", booktitle= "{P}roceedings of {W}o{TUG}-14: {O}ccam and the {T}ransputer-{C}urrent {D}evelopments", isbn= "90 5199 063 4", year= "1991", month= "sep", abstract= "In our eagerness to promote Occam and Transputers on the World stage, we must not forget that the now common place jargon of the Occam User Group may be very new to those practitioners that are entering this realm for the first time. For the benefit of students, old and young alike, who have missed out on the hype that surrounded the transputer in the 1980s, what follows should provide a brief insight into this complex field. Beyond introducing the current transputer hardware and Occam software, a glimpse of things to come is provided by a pre-release view of the IMS T9000 transputer and the next generation of the Occam language. This overview concludes with a short pr\`{e}cis of each of the papers that contributed to this, the 14th World Occam and Transputer User Group technical meeting." }