From: andy@research.canon.com.au (Andy Newman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: Information Request Date: 17 Feb 1999 04:27:37 GMT Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia Message-Id: <7adgfp$90$1@cass.research.canon.com.au> References: <36C989A5.DEE846B7@sheffield.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Xref: ukc comp.sys.transputer:9052 Dariush writes: > Things like, what they were used for originally, what they > are used for now and why they have died out? I used to work for a company that used transpters back in the early days - I have a wafer of dead 414s and remember the first lot of bug lists. We used them for the floating point performance which was quite good at the time. The easy interconnect and general lack of glue logic required was also beneficial. We used them in processor farms for 2D and 3D rendering acceleration. We also used them as the main control processors for this large, video processing, embedded system (i.e., they were the only processors in the system other than the specialist video devices).