Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: iainf@threel.co.uk (Iain A F Fleming)
Subject: Re: Transputer-> Forgotten Futures
Organization: 3L Limited
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:41:20 GMT
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On Sat, 14 Feb 1998 10:52:25 +0000, 
 Iann Barron <iann@mynchen.demon.co.uk>, 
 of Dis, wrote:
> No, the transputer was specifically designed as an embedded chip,
 ...
> An embedded chip has almost the same requirements as a parallel 
> processing chip 

And, indeed, since the transputer, other embedded processors have had
links of sorts - the Ti TMS320C4x (and the C8 which has several
processors on one chip), and the Analog Devices SHARC. 

However, all of them suffer from link technologies that are
over-complicated. And in the case of the SHARC, also a downright
hostile instruction set...

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