Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: pete <pete@feeney.co.uk>
Reply-To: pete@feeney.co.uk
Subject: Re: Transputer - alternate source?
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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:44:09 +0000
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anybody please comment on my Transputer+ message??
pete

pete wrote:

> Hi Ian
> thanks for the pointers bad the code I have had a look at it and have
> compared it to the code produced for the transputer emulator. With two pieces
> of code joined to produce a fully
> functional item in software and hardware there is a possibility of an item.
> Now for the newsgroup religious question.....
> In this age where object orientated operting systems are becoming the norm
> along with distributed
> processing and multitasking, would the transputer need an MMU in a future
> version?
> With a higher speed core in the ranges of the AMD, HyperSparc, Intel cores
> could we increase the i/o links speeds to about 100Mb/s?
> Internal memory on the ic would we increase it to the size of the pentium pro
> cache 64k?
> With the higher speeds would a non multiplexed bus be better?
> pete