30 May
2011
30 May
'11
9:12 a.m.
On 5/30/11 11:31 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Yes. :) WANT!!
The designer
of the Transputer architecture, Dave May, hasn't been sitting
still. His new(ish) company, XMOS, is selling some really nice chips that
are generally considered to be descendants of the Transputer architecture.
I've not yet messed with them, but they've been on my list since I heard
about them a year or two ago.
Oh, cool, I did not know that.
XMOS make the coprocessor in the new (not yet commercially-available)
AmigaOne X1000. I've seen& played with the prototype - it's a very
appealing machine and in the form of AmigaOS 4.1 with a pleasingly
small, efficient and very fast OS, plus a respectable library of
applications (OK, most running under emulation, but hey) /and/ a
choice of decent modern Linux ports.
http://www.a-eon.com/ I hadn't realised the XCore XS1-L1 sort-of-RISCy
sort-of-DSP-like
coprocessor of undefined functionality was in any way
Transputer-related. It doesn't make it any more use, but it makes it
cooler. :?)
You should check out the architecture and read about its history.
It's interesting stuff.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL