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In comp.lang.modula2 you write:

>Hello ,

>Could you help me ???
>Do you know what "transputer" is ??? Could you send me detailed
>information ???

>Thanks ...

>BILMIN @ TREARN
A transputer is a fairly fast little processor which is designed for
parallel processing usin Hoare's Comunnincating Sequential Processes
model.
The system programming language is called OCCAM and is nice and
intellectual and correct., but don't you ever try to build
anything complex in it. It is next to impossible to build
an operating system.

Transputers communicate with eachother through fast serial channels
, about 20 megabit, the Occam model of processes is very close to the model used
in the hardware.

The manufacture/developer is INMOS in the UK - probably most usefully
remebered for designing the VGA standard hardware.

Transputers are not really worth the effort. I woked on a project
with them for two ywears with 25 hardware guys and 25 software.

Very dificult for software. The language is static - we had to write memeory
managers, the only data structure is the array.
If you want to cook, you have to make your own saucepans!


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Peter Goodall

Smalltalk Systems Consultant
ObjecTech P/L
162 Burns Bay Rd,
LANE COVE , NSW, AUSTRALIA
objtch@extro.ucc.su.oz.au