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From: K312240@AEARN.BITNET (Klaus Kusche)
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Subject: H1 transputer: Code compatible?!?
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Date: 28 Nov 89 16:32:23 GMT
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Dear Mailing List:

The only definite (printed and Inmos-authored) information I've ever
seen about the new H1 transputer appears in the SERC/DTI Mailshot,
issue November 1989, page 10.

Is there any possibility that someone who has that stuff in electronic
form posts it on the list???

As usual (?!?), the information is quite short and does omit all
details, there is nothing in it which you wouldn't trivially expect.

Just one question about that announcement (is expected to be answered
by Inmos people!!!): The first item there promises "Code compatible
with T800. H1 will be able to run all your existing software, ..."

Does this really mean that all binaries, even those not produced by
the TDS or other Inmos compilers, will run unchanged, even if they
contain all kinds of handcrafted assembler tricks??? This would also
imply that the memory map, the link interface, the queue organization
and of course the register set are the same or at least compatible...

Too good to believe! Any comments about it?

I think what they actually meant is source code compatibility:
Just buy their new compilers and recompile all your stuff....

Greetings

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