Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: Edu <edu@kender.es>
Subject: Info on Transputer ISA Board
Organization: Unisource Espana NEWS SERVER
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:36:34 +0100
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    I have been given what appears a PC-Based Transputer Development
Board. It is a IMS B008 Rev E. It's a long board with a 9 sockets.
Numbers 1,5,6 and 7 are free. 2 and 3 there is a IMS T805 Transputer
with what seems 8 vram or so modules. There is a double module over 0
and 4 socket with a IMS T800D with 16 modules of VRAM. sockets 8 and 9
are populated directly on the board with two other chips. I've al least
other 2 modules with a IMS T805.

    I haven't received any documentation or software.

    I read some time ago about the transputer and know about the
philosophy of transputer paradigm and Occam 1 and 2.

    The questions are:

1) Is there a way to know if this board is still working without
purchasing programs? I currently have machines with DOS, Windows 3.1,
Windows 95, Linux and FreeBSD.

2) Is there any PD or shareware software that would allow me to take a
look at transputer software development.

3) Is the development software still available and purchasable?

4) I am thinking to do with this effort to present it as a practice for
a paralell programming course, but I don't know if this approach is
still considered in the industry. I know that there is much paralell
programming done with PVM and MPI. But I think the Transputer can be
very useful for developing comunication protocols.

    Well, please send comments directly to the email address or to the
group

    Regards Eduardo