transputer
Sign in to savethumb|T414 transputer chip thumb|IMSB008 base platform with IMSB419 and IMSB404 modules mounted The transputer is a series of microprocessors from the 1980s, intended for parallel computing. To support this, each transputer had its own integrated memory and serial communication links to exchange data with other transputers. They were designed and produced by Inmos, a semiconductor company based in Bristol, United Kingdom.
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24 sectionsContents
- Background
- Design
- Architecture
- Links
- Booting
- Scheduler
- Instruction set
- Development
- Software
- Implementations
- T2: 16-bit
- T4: 32-bit
- T8: floating point
- T400
- T100
- TPCORE
- T9000
- ST20
- Adoption
- Legacy
- See also
- References
- External links
- Patents
thumb|T414 transputer chip thumb|IMSB008 base platform with IMSB419 and IMSB404 modules mounted The transputer is a series of microprocessors from the 1980s, intended for parallel computing. To support this, each transputer had its own integrated memory and serial communication links to exchange data with other transputers. They were designed and produced by Inmos, a semiconductor company based in Bristol, United Kingdom.
For some time in the late 1980s, many considered the transputer to be the next great design for the future of computing. While the transputer did not achieve this expectation, the transputer architecture was highly influential in provoking new ideas in computer architecture, several of which have re-emerged in different forms in modern systems.