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	INMOS Transputer
		A typical desktop machine might have two of the "low end" Transputers handling I/O tasks on some of their serial lines (hooked up to appropriate hardware) while they talked to one of their larger cousins acting as a CPU on another.
		Transputers could be booted over the network links (as opposed to the memory as in most machines) so a single Transputer could start up the entire network.
		While the Transputer was simple, but powerful, compared to many contemporary designs, it never came close to meeting its goals to be used universally in both CPU and microcontroller roles.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/tr/Transputer.html (1849 words)

	Amiga Transputer
		The Amiga Transputer was proposed by Tim King (who had previously ported TripOS to the 68k) and several others at Metacomco.
		What I know of the transputer is that it was demoed at the spring 1988 developer's conference in an off the shelf A2000.
		If the developer is to be believed, the Transputer would have offered 'up to 40 times the performance of a 68040 when fully loaded with transputers'.
	www.amigau.com /aig/prototypes/transputer.html (1721 words)

	Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - transputer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The transputer was originally developed and bundled with Occam, an advanced parallel processing language, but ultimately migrated to use with C, where it garnered more widespread adoption.
		When the 30MHz T9000 transputer arrived, it featured superscalar architecture, a 64-bit floating point unit, 16KB on-die cache, and a revamped communication process wherein the serial links communicated via a packet-based protocol rather than byte-based, with each packet being 32 bytes plus a header to direct the packet’s routing.
		Naturally, transputers had the advantage of running in large-scale, parallel processor configurations, but mounting advances from Intel, IBM, and other microprocessor vendors sealed the transputer’s fate.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=8CF5E5CB35CB42E1857F6F42970E2A2C&searchtype=1&DicID=19310&RefType=Encyclopedia (362 words)

	Parallel Programming In C For the Transputer.
		Its target is the Inmos transputer, a RISC processor with networking capabilities which has gained a good reputation in Europe and is now becoming increasingly popular in the United States.
		I chose the transputer because it offers good cost/performance trade-offs, making it attractive for small computer science or computer engineering departments, as well as for individual and/or engineers interested in faster processing speed for their PC, MacIntosh, or work station.
		This is followed by a presentation of the architecture of the transputer, a RISC processor augmented with on-chip memory and four ports, allowing various network topologies (Chapter 2).
	maven.smith.edu /~thiebaut/transputer/descript.html (1145 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The Atari Transputer Workstation (also known as ATW-800, or simply ATW) was a workstation class computer released by Atari in the late 1980s.
		Based on the INMOS transputer, the machine was considerably more powerful than anything available on the market at the time.
		Of particular note was the lack of memory protection, due largely to the lack of an MMU on the transputer.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Atari_Transputer_Workstation (758 words)

	A Replacement Transputer Node for the Agora Distributed Computing Architecture for Robotics
		A Transputer is a processing node with local memory and resources, which communicates with other Transputers via high-speed dedicated serial links.
		Transputers are designed to be connected in homogeneous networks, where all communication between nodes is performed over these links.
		The Transputer links are routed off the board with a standard wide-pitch connector, and pass through an adapter board on to the existing robot.
	www.ini.unizh.ch /~dylan/docs/agora_abstract (1378 words)

	An Implementation of Real-time Granular Synthesis on a Multi-processor Network (main body)
		Four transputers form a single element and four of these are situated on a single 3U printed circuit board, 16 transputers in total.
		For the revised configuration, a transputer with 128k- or 256k-byte of external memory is connected to three transputers at the tree-bottom level that share this extra memory.
		At a moment, 9 of these transputers with external memory are available that cover a third of the network and provide at least 27 voices.
	www.brunel.ac.uk /~eesttti/papers/main.htm (735 words)

	WoTUG - Transputer
		The INMOS Transputer was a pioneering parallel computing processor of the 1980s from the Welsh chip design company INMOS.
		The "lower" nibble contained data, either for arithmetic operations, for addressing memory, or as an operand to the indirect opcode, which was used to add more instructions to those available using the the 16 possible using a nibble.
		One big advantage of this scheme was that it permitted 16 bit and 32-bit transputers to share the same binary format and, in many cases, the same compiled programs.
	www.wotug.org /transputer.shtml (255 words)

	The Transputer Connection: Atari and Perihelion
		Tim King, the president of Perihelion, is as warm and friendly as the unusually sunny British summer afternoon on which we interviewed him.
		This is all taken care of at the 68000 end, leaving the Transputer free to handle the heavy stuff." King points to the open guts of an ATW nearby.
		Each of these daughter boards has three Transputers on it, and the ATW can hold a total of four boards which means 13 Transputers, all working at once at 10 MIPS [Million Instructions Per Second] and using some 16 megabytes of RAM.
	www.atarimagazines.com /startv4n4/transputer.html (1251 words)

	The Transputer archive
		Standardized bibliography relating to the Inmos transputer derived from transputer bibliographies in BibTeX format (see index).
		Networks, Routers and Transputers: Function, Performance and Applications, edited by M.D. May, P.W. Thompson and P.H. Welch, Inmos.
		An on-line list of Transputer books is available from Blackwell's Bookshops.
	vl.fmnet.info /transputer (197 words)

	Transputers, Helios, and more fun
		In the late '80s, while I was living in Madrid, I was lent a prototype of the Atari Transputer Workstation (ATW) (known at the time as the Abaq).
		I think I know how to make a link cable to wire it up to the other processors, but I'm not sure that all of the wiring from the backplane inside the x'plorer to the outside of the case is all correct.
		Transputer Assembly Language (interesting discussion of transputer programming model)
	www.michaelp.org /transputer (1349 words)

	Transputer project list (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Transputer is a microprocessor designed to easily connect to other Transputer's.
		That way large arrays of Transputer's could be constructed that would allow algorithms to execute in parallel.
		The Transputer is also a very good embedded controller, although not advertised that way, did provide features that other embedded micro-controllers of the day did not.
	www.cate.com.au /download/transputer/index.html (2254 words)

	tForth: Forth for the Transputer
		Considering the fact that a transputer context switch is in effect a change of the workspace, we decided to put all of the Forth administration in the workspace.
		A transputer Forth conforming to the Forth 83 standard is a bad idea, as that explicitly requires the use of a 16-bit model [9].
		To a transputer a cell is not equivalent to four bytes in a row, as a cell address should be a multiple of four.
	home.iae.nl /users/mhx/t4artic.html (7862 words)

	AEX - The most comprehensive exploration of Atari online
		Transputer technology had been advanced through Inmos (now part of SG- Thompson), a company largely responsible for the commercial success of the T-400 and T-800.
		Transputers had been largely unsuccessful commercially, mostly due to the price and the lack of any mainstream support for the product.
		Initial reports mentioned development of an "ST Transputer" or add-on board for the the current ST range, but this would be just rumour, the fact was Atari had been developing a very niche product in conjunction with Perihelion, another UK based company.
	www.atari-explorer.com /16bit/transputer.html (375 words)

	Gemini Twin-Arrays Infrared Camera User's Manual: More About Gemini
		The transputer is a microprocessor with on-chip RAM and four high-speed serial links which allow it to be easily networked for use in parallel applications.
		One transputer (the "root" processor) is situated on a PC-bus card in our host computer where it receives commands from the PC, passes them over the serial links to the three front end subsystems: the long-wavelength (fast) channel, the short wavelength (slow) channel, and the stepper motor controller.
		The stepper motor control transputer accepts commands from the root transputer and feeds the required pulses to stepper motor driver chips to move the various mechanisms in and around the camera.
	mthamilton.ucolick.org /techdocs/instruments/gemini/gemini_more.html (3125 words)

	Parallel Computing Using Transputers
		The transputer is a family of microprocessors developed by Inmos, Ltd., a member of the SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Group (transputer is a registered trademark of Inmos).
		The T4 and T8 series transputers were developed in the mid-1980's and are 32 bit processors comparable in speed to Intel 386 and 486 processors.
		The transputer was designed hand-in-hand with the language Occam, a language for message-passing parallel processes based on Hoare's CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes).
	www.wellesley.edu /CS/forum/contrib/nevison.html (2204 words)

	Amiga Transputer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Amiga Transputer was proposed by Tim King (who had previously ported TripOS to the 68k) and several others at Metacomco.
		What I know of the transputer is that it was demoed at the spring 1988 developer's conference in an off the shelf A2000.
		If the developer is to be believed, the Transputer would have offered 'up to 40 times the performance of a 68040 when fully loaded with transputers'.
	www.amigahistory.co.uk /prototypes/transputer.html (1721 words)

	App. Note 4: IMS B007 A Transputer Based Graphics Board (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The transputer is halted by asserting MemReq and waiting for the transputer to reply with the assertion of MemGranted.
		Also the transputer’s autonomous links can slice data into the display allowing the frame store data to be derived from a network of transputers.
		With this powerful feature, for example, a transputer graphics board could become a graphics command interpreter, receiving commands via links (fast graphics primitives residing in internal RAM), or an intelligent frame store connected to large computing engines built from arrays of transputers, which pump data straight to the frame store via the four INMOS links.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /kryten_droid/inmos/ims_an004.htm (2535 words)

	Embedded.com - Transputer's inventor raises seed funding for processor architecture
		The transputer was a pioneering single-chip processor designed to support parallel processing.
		The first transputer chip was announced in 1983 and appeared in 1984.
		Haggar declined to be drawn on whether the architecture would address multiprocessing, which has become a hot topic some 20 years after the transputer was launched on the market.
	www.embedded.com /rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193003591 (493 words)

	occam-com mailing list archive (by thread)
		Perception of WoTUG and occam and transputers, Ruth Ivimey-Cook
		Re: Perception of WoTUG and occam and transputers, Lawrence Dickson
		Re: Perception of WoTUG and occam and transputers, Beton, Richard
	www.occam-pi.org /list-archives/occam-com (3174 words)

	EVIDENCE GROWS THAT INMOS TRANSPUTER IS CLOSE TO MARKET BREAKTHROUGH - CBRonline.com
		Proof of market acceptance of the Inmos T800 Transputer is coming thick and fast now that it has entered volume production at Inmos International's Newport, South Wales fabrication plant.
		With Atari Corp now a committed fan, and with strong hints that Steve Jobs' Next Inc may be planning to use the part in its Scholar's Workstation, the Inmos part can be said to be on the brink of breakthrough.
		But all the Transputer developers at Compec agreed that the advent of widespread parallelism in computers would necessitate a new awareness of how to exploit it from programmers.
	www.cbronline.com /article_cg.asp?guid=4F9F0DCB-226E-4206-AF93-F78BDFB1FE49 (729 words)

	E-BUSINESS IN THE ENTERPRISE - Multi-core Processors: transputers reborn
		To cut a fascinating story short, the transputer chip was designed to be connected to other transputer chips forming a tightly coupled network of computing power.
		With the transputer, different CPUs were hooked together on PCBs as there was only so many transistors that could be placed on a single piece of silicon.
		The transputer re-incarnated in the form of multi-core processors would appear to have a healthy future ahead of it.
	www.itworld.com /nl/ebiz_ent/04252006 (1017 words)

	IMS T414 transputer: prelimary data, December 1986) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The IMS T414 transputer is a 32 bit microcomputer with 2 Kbytes on-chip RAM for high speed processing, a configurable memory interface and four standard INMOS communication links.
		It is intended to be read in conjunction with the Transputer Reference Manual, which details the architecture of the transputer and gives an overview of occam.
		Transputer memory is byte addressed, with words aligned on four-byte boundaries.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /kryten_droid/inmos/ims_t414.htm (1159 words)

	IPCA : Parallel : Bibliographies : Transputer
		The Transputer in Australasia, Proceedings of ATOUG 3, ed.
		The Transputer in Australasia 2, Proceedings of ATOUG 4, ed.
		Transputer and occam Developments, Proceedings of WoTUG 18, ed Patrick Nixon, Manchester Metropolitan University, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1995.
	wotug.kent.ac.uk /parallel/bibliographies/transputer (1024 words)

	Boon: MacGuffin's Transputer - TV.com
		Harry is desperate to find a permanent replacement but all the girls that he has interviewed so far are proving to be singularly useless.
		When Alex sees the remains of the circuit board, she realises that her former boss has planted it, Her suspicions are confirmed when MacGuffin asks Ken to search the house - obviously he wants Ken to find the "stolen" circuit board.
		Angry at the way MacGuffin has deceived her and for the way that he sacked her without any explanation, she suggests that they put back the transputer in his safe to thwart his claim that it has been stolen.
	www.tv.com /boon/macguffins-transputer/episode/163874/summary.html (853 words)

	About Brain Aid Prolog
		Experienced Transputer users should skip this chapter, but users new to the Transputer architecture might be worried by the idea of having two or more (or far more) computers at work at once.
		The Transputer is (or was) a powerful RISC processor equipped with fast communication hardware and a complete memory interface on chip.
		In traditional Transputer environments you had to explicitly place processes on computing nodes, establish channels between processes and define communication protocols along these channels.
	www.fraber.de /bap/bap4.html (2442 words)

	fpgacpu.org - Reimplementing Transputers
		If so, I can't say, because I never studied the transputer instruction set architecture, and because it depends upon whether you are willing to handle divide, floating point, etc., in software.
		If you mean "build a new machine in the transputer style", with high integration of on-chip components and instruction set support for message sends and fast task switching, etc., then here's a few back-of-the-envelope estimates for you.
		I am not a transputer expert.) A pipelined 16-bit datapath for a two-cycled 32-bit RISC requires about 8x9=72 CLBs, and its control unit could be ~50 CLBs.
	www.fpgacpu.org /usenet/transputer.html (469 words)

	ACFR Transputer Technology Support (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Inmos Transputers are a classic processor, designed for distributed computing.
		The Transputer's distributed parallel processing architecture is ideal for real time data fusion and control of large systems.
		The ST20 was SGS's 32 bit MCU developed from the Transputer after purchasing Inmod.
	www.acfr.usyd.edu.au /technology/transputer/index.html (198 words)

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