It's an alternate timeline, basically. Had Inmos not fallen off a cliff after the T800 with a wicked case of second system syndrome (I know that the T9k wasn't their second system, but it has all the hallmarks) things might have gone differently, earlier.

Unless I'm mistaken, the only thing that lasted was the // single line comment syntax from Occam.

Thanks.

The first three words on the page should be, "A transputer is..."

'The name, from "transistor" and "computer"), was selected to indicate the role the individual transputers would play: numbers of them would be used as basic building blocks in a larger integrated system, just as transistors had been used in earlier designs.'