Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth,de.comp.lang.forth,comp.sys.transputer From: Chris Gray Subject: Re: TILE forth for the inmos transputer t8 family Organization: Alcatel/Bell Date: 15 Apr 1998 09:05:25 +0200 Message-ID: Alex Stuebinger writes: > I knew that the transputer products were discontinued. > As I am a regular reader of this newsgroup. > > With an installed base of at least several thousand clusters > the transputer is not dead. > It is usually possible to acquire used parts. > And it remains an important parallel processing architecture. I imagine that ATW owners would be interested. You can buy an ATW for almost nothing, but the operating system costs GBP 750. (Helios 1.3). A Forth-based system would be one way for people to experiment with transputers and parallel computing in general. The tricky bit is the i/o system. How will your Forth talk to the keyboard, screen, disks, etc? -- Chris Gray