Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: David Boreham <dboreham@netscape.com>
Subject: Re: Ex-INMOS people (where are they now?)
Organization: Netscape Communications
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:45:52 -0800
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mdp2 wrote:

> Like other recent contributors to this newsgroup, I believe that the
> ideas embodied in the transputer and occam deserve to survive the end of
> ST's involvement and am personally very keen to participate in this
> survival.

As one of the ex-moss'ers who now works in
what might be called the mainstream software/computer
industry, I'd observe that hardly a week goes past
where I _don't_ see some idea embodied in the
transputer and occam used somewhere.
A couple of recent visits to Intel's CPU development
facilities were particularly enlightening.
Microprocessors now are rectangular black boxes
with integral heat management, mechanical fixings,
and edge-connectors.
It quite warmed the cockles of my heart to
think of Paul Walker's suggestions along the
same lines, what, ten years ago now ?