From: Bob Daniel Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: What Ever Became of the "Transputer" ??? Date: 14 May 1999 05:58:19 GMT Organization: Dash Associates Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <7hge1r$lp8$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ux6.sp.cs.cmu.edu Xref: ukc comp.parallel:15596 In article <7haft3$ro0@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, Eugene Miya writes ... >Panel 26: >from an anonymous contribution: > >The Inmos transputer has earned a place in this file, now that >SGS/Thomson has issued the last-time-buy warning (end 98, last >deliveries end 99). The moral of this one is don't try to change >everything at once (language, processing model, hardware) > >>I was moderator in those days and I was also closely allied with >>Floating Point Systems, who used transputers in their T-series machines. > >Wanta come back? 8^) > >>I think I can say with a lot of certainty that no matter how hot the >>hardware, without imperative style compilers available, those machines >>are pretty much doomed. That is a reality; sorry if your a computer >>engineer and think otherwise... > >Read: "Fortran." >It hurt Hillis and the Connection Machine, too. > There was some language called C too. The version that I used had the interesting property that NULL wasn't 0. A nice little treat that broke most software one wanted to port. But the floating point unit hardware was proved to be correct, I seem to remember (Intel, please note). Happy days, with a 4-transputer board plugged into a 286 PC. No debugger, just a reboot if you made a programming error. -- Bob Daniel Dash Associates, Blisworth House, Blisworth, Northants NN7 3BX, UK Phone: +44 1604 858993 Fax: +44 1604 858147 Email: rcd@dash.co.uk WWW: http://www.dash.co.uk/ XPRESS-MP - Software for Modelling and Optimisation -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel