New generation transputers / Instr set docu

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Author: Klaus Kusche
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1989 15:37

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Dear Mailing List:

1.) About the new generation of transputers:
  I heard something about it this week at the meeting of the German
  Transputer User Group by an Inmos rep., although he didn't give any
  useful details.

  The good news:
  It will include many "conventional goodies" for those who want to
  run conventional software and operating systems.
  It will include an improved link protocol including automatic
  routing hardware.
  Onchip RAM may be used as such (if there is no ext RAM) or as a true
  cache of offchip RAM.

  The bad news:
  Don't expect compatibility.
  It will take 18 months to materialize (at best!!!).

  The shorttime news is the T400 (20$ stripped-down T414 with 2 links
  only) and the T805 (T800 replacement including all the new T425 and
  T801 features).

2.) For those not happy with the Compiler writer's guide:
  There is a transputer instruction set docu written by Colin Plumb
  (who did a lot of assembler hacks). I've a copy which I could email
  to the interested (however, the document is already quite old).

  To Colin: There seems to be urgent need for a 'second edition'.

Greetings

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