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founding
Sep 13, 2023Liked by Babbage

What a great blast from the past! I remember memorizing the t800 Inmos instruction set and the link between chips was amazing especially because you could load your bootstrap code over it. Years later I was surprised to find a t225 in a serial console server I picked up at auction. What a weird application for that chip!

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Hi! Thanks so much for commenting. It's amazing where Transputers ended up being used. I love the 'bootstrap load' feature too. Can you still remember the ISA?

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founding

I don't .. it was a long time ago but I still have 'the transputer book' somewhere..

I later moved on to the i860 vector processor and *again* the transputer showed up on a hybrid system .. the only reference I can find is a paid for article

Personal supercomputing by using transputer and Intel 80860 in plasma

engineering | SpringerLink

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/bf00370011

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founding

Well, there it is ..

Caplin Cybernetics i860/Transputer cards

https://www.geekdot.com/caplin-cybernetics/

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