Hi everyone, author here. Just to note that this is just Part 1 of a multi-part series.
I’d love to cover some of the real world applications of Transputers in Part 2 so please share if you think of interest.
I’d love to cover some of the real world applications of Transputers in Part 2 so please share if you think of interest.
My supervisors published a paper about it in Microprocessors and Microsystems https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/014193...
What I had in mind at the time (once Moore's law reduced the size and power demand) was customisable hearing aids - the sort of thing that can now be done with AirPods Pro.
For a certain generation of system engineers it seems like early exposure to parallel programming on Transputers helped them get a leg up in distributed system design, especially once multi core systems came along.
I've written a few comments about it before on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8950421
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333126
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759446
https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/three-decades-ago-mercedes...
He may have also been the higher-up boss that our system threw to the ground during a false-positive emergency braking event as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333126