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Hi Babbage, yes the parallel architecture model and the overlay of Occam's processes onto the multi-proc h/w was ingenious and as I say, well ahead of its time. Also, not to be underestimated was the class leading nature of a 20Mbit serial link in the 80s! Use of this formed the basis of my degree project and found its way into avionics hardware in the 90s. The legacy lives on though - amongst others, one major success was the use of the 32bit T424 core in what became the ST20, which found it's way into a very large number of settop boxes in Europe. That core is now widely embedded elsewhere too. Happy days! What did you work on? That would be amusing if so!

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Very fond memories of being one two Field Application Engineers with Inmos in the UK - helping customers design and develop their Transputer based systems. Fascinating times and, in hindsight Inmos and our parallel processing architecture was elegant, class leading, and well ahead of its time.

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