28 May
2011
28 May
'11
8:33 p.m.
In article <BANLkTik9qq5t-Y0z0ugs4dmfU3+1btabvQ at mail.gmail.com>,
William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
For the same reason anyone implements any other CPU in an FPGA -- so
you can use that CPU architecture in a modern design or as a hardware
simulation of a vintage design.
All this
transputer talk makes me wonder if anyone has implemented the
CPU as an FPGA?
Why? Transputers are not all that super rare,
6502s and 6800s are even more common and both of those are implemented
as FPGA cores.
and like most early MPP
architectures, really did not work all that well, as was originally
intended.
I think there's a difference between commercial success and not
working well. "Not working well" implies to me that it had some
functional deficiency. Transputers ended up not being commercially
successful because they were expensive and not many people wanted to
program in Occam, despite whatever advantages CSP may have had.
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