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From: ken@turtleva.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Trans-puters??
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Date: Mon, 17-Oct-83 02:56:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 17 02:56:33 1983
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Transputer is a term coined by Inmos for their new type of NMOS
microprocessor.  Everything to follow is based on imperfect memory
(mine), from speaking with a gentleman from Inmos, U.K., at SIGGRAPH.

It is due to come out in the first half of next year.  Its main claim
to fame is high processing speed (more like a RISC) with a second bus
for interprocessor communication and other I/O.  Its architecture is
supposed to accommodate message passing and distributed processing.  I
doubt whether it'll have memory mapping, virtual memory, or any of the
other things that operating system hackers love to have.  Then again,
I've been looking at it strictly from a hardware standpoint.  It shows
promise, but detailed information won't be available for several
months.  68-pin chip carrier.

			Ken Turkowski
		    CADLINC, Palo Alto
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