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Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested." -
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostWhich processor assumes overall control?Comment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostDid that at university, what with Kent University being quite up on those new-fangled transputers that were going to revolutionise computing. In 1990.
I remember them being launched in 1984... I thought they were pretty much dead in the water by 1990.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostThey were still using transputers in 1990?
I remember them being launched in 1984... I thought they were pretty much dead in the water by 1990.
I forget. Maybe it was post-transputer, but they were still all talking about parallel computing as the next big thing. I did think Occam's way of grouping PAR and SEQ bits of code was really neat and based something else I did years later on that.
Hopefully there'll be a big surge of companies wanting their old C++ apps rewritten to take advantage of the now common place multi core processors, and those of us with the relevant experience can clean up. Boomed! Haven't seen much evidence yet.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostWell universities always teach things that are out of date.
I forget. Maybe it was post-transputer, but they were still all talking about parallel computing as the next big thing. I did think Occam's way of grouping PAR and SEQ bits of code was really neat and based something else I did years later on that.
Hopefully there'll be a big surge of companies wanting their old C++ apps rewritten to take advantage of the now common place multi core processors, and those of us with the relevant experience can clean up. Boomed! Haven't seen much evidence yet.
I always thought they had great potential - I might still have the datasheet for the original transputer somewhereComment
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