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Re: Transputers are just a myth ! !!

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From: John Aderseen
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:30
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Who cares what they are called !
I bet that one day parallel processing will be back in style. That day
people that have dealt with transputers and Occam will have a definite
advantage (having played around with 128 processors is certain experience).
Just wait and see

Regards,
John

"john jakson" <johnjakson@yahoo.com> a οΏ½crit dans le message de
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> netspider4@lycos.com (Karl-Hugo Weesberg) wrote in message
news:<7666ed5f.0410252314.735b06d5@posting.google.com>...
> > Do not exist !
>
> Do you have anymore to say than that?
>
> Atleast the design of a new risc FPGA Transputer keeps me busy and the
> compiler even more so, nothing better to do. Not terribly sure if
> anyone will want it though or if the world is now past that & occam or
> do we have to go around the circle again to reinvent everything.
>
> I am really wondering when & if Intel & others get to put 16 or more
> cpu cores on a chip will they have evolved more to include more
> Transputer like features esp P scheduling, channels, links or was it
> all a dream or even a mistake.
>
> And what will it be called? In a recent EET article by Richard Newton
> U.C. Berkeley Dean notes the coming of a sea of processors
>
> http://www.eedesign.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51000480
>
> "Newton's speech echoes previous scholars whom have predicted that
> processors will become tomorrow's transistor, progressing from tens to
> hundreds to thousands etcetera on a single IC."
>
> I bet they won't be called Transputers and won't run Occam either.
>
>
> regards
>
> johnjakson_usa_com
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