13 Mar
2001
13 Mar
'01
6:56 a.m.
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
I am guessing here, but I think the transputer did not sell well because
it was somewhat mismarketed by Inmos. They sold it as a building block
for parallel computers, and it's a well-known fact that many real-world
problems don't parallelise at all easily. So parallel computers were not
that widely used.
I assume that this is the 'supercomputer in a suitcase' about which New
Scientist wrote at the time of the launch of the transputer is it.