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thawkins | 5 years ago

yep each transputer had 4 serial links, which could be connected in matrixes, and allow data to be moved across the array directly. They used a language called OCCAM, and there was an OS called TAOS that allowed you to run various transputer topologies.

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TickleSteve|5 years ago

TAOS also ran on many other architectures (68K, x86, ARM). It implemented a virtual processor (VP1) and evolved into Elate but didn't get much recognition despite its novelty.

TAOS was definitely ahead of its time, but rarely gets mentioned unfortunately.

rbanffy|5 years ago

Dick Pountain wrote a lot of articles for BYTE about that.

This is one: https://sites.google.com/site/dicknewsite/home/computing/pri...

kitd|5 years ago

OCCAM!! That was it! Thx I was trying to remember the name of the language they used.

I wonder whether OCCAM would be usable here, or if not, then something based on the lessons learnt from it.

TickleSteve|5 years ago

OCCAM implemented CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes) that Go took a lot of lessons from.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce...)