Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: Magnus Paterson <mjp@roe.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Post Mortem
Organization: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:55:50 +0000
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This in from someone who used to try selling the beasts (Pete Highton
formerly at Rapid/MMd)

Re: - transputer - if Inmos had done what ARM have subsequently done,
    i.e. license the core, the story would have been oh so different.
    Someone should have marketed the part much harder in the U.S. and
    Japan, and really promoted it as an integrated core (as the ST20
    finally became). Parallel processing is fine, but how many
    applications (mainstream) even today really use more than a
    handful of processors? Enough of the soapbox!

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Cheers,
Magnus