Transputer documentation required - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Jul 1998

What exactly is a transputer and how is it different from a normal CPU?
...
 A transputer is a specific type of processor from inmos
(IIRC), so you
wouldn't be able to easily make one from bits of other computers  
How many processors were in the Cosmic Cube? What kind of speeds did it 
reach? There was once a Circuit Cellar article on building  a parallel 
processing computer out of a 286 and IIRC from 16 to 256 
microcontrollers. All that could do was calculate the mandelbrot set, 
though, at speed reachable by an i486 (yes, I know that's not the 
point).

...
 In fact, that was the original idea behind Cal
Tech's Cosmic Cube which eventually led to Intel's hypercubes (such as  the
...
 iPSC/1).

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