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In article <4679@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes:
>[Lots of interesting stuff about the transputer]
>

Thanks for some information about the transputer, I would be most happy
if the following points could be cleared up too.

Well if there is an OS, will there be a copy for every processor, will it
be in shared (slooow) memory or will there be a processor running os code
exclusively passing results to the other transputers. (all of the above
methods sound not tooo great to say the least).

Same for shared resources like graphics, I/O and stuff. How ?

I had actually expected that the system would run more like this,
A table with processes that are to be run. Lots of processors (
say 4 in the beginning, (- stolen from M.B.-)) grabbing processes that
need to be run, swapping in the process space from disk (*) and executing
those merrily. If we have 1MB per processor, we don't -quite- have
Virtual Memory, but something inbetween, and it sounds quite Unix-like.
Arguably it might not be the perfect thing to do for the transputer, neg-
lecting maybe some hardware niceties.


Natuerlich!

(*) poor overworked HD
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