21 Feb
2012
21 Feb
'12
6:21 p.m.
On 02/21/2012 08:33 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
My point was that Inmos sold a diversity of adapters interfaced through
the links. It *wasn't* necessarily done with Transputers bit-banging
(they wouldn't necessarily be fast enough anyway - e.g. video).
I get it. An excellent point.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
That sounds like the Transputer model -- there was
quite a diversity of
devices accessible via the standard serial links: I/O, storage,
graphics, networks, etc.
Well sorta, but in that model you'd bit-bang all of that stuff with
(mostly) identical Transputers.