Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!bruce!goanna!koel!rcoda
From: rcoda@koel.rmit.oz (David Abramson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: What makes Transputer interesting
Message-ID: <662@koel.rmit.oz>
Date: 16 Nov 88 01:28:35 GMT
References: <37700002@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: RMIT Comm & Elec Eng, Melbourne, Australia.
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From article <37700002@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, by grabas@m.cs.uiuc.edu:
>        One of the main things I reproach to the Transputer is that it does not 
> support virtual memory (vital to build any reasonnable stand-alone machine). 
>        If anybody from INMOS reads this note, please, could he tell me when it 
> will be done (or why it shouldn't be done...)? 
> 
>                    Dominique Grabas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Also  the on-board memory should be organised as a cache. This makes programming
much easier.
PS. I agree about the +ve points.



Dr David Abramson 

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