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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: "Anthony.Appleyard" <MCLSSAA2 AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 15:48:24 +0000
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Subject: Re: Interrupts (Hardware)

>   Anthony.Appleyard wrote:
> > Sorry to be off-topic, but that looks like the sort of operation where
> > genuine parallel processing would be useful. E.g. about 20 years ago I heard
> > of a computer called the `Connection Machine', which acted somewhat like
> > 0x10000 Commodore Pets serial-numbered from 0 to 0xffff all sharing one
> > control unit; each was linked to the 16 others whose serial numbers had one
> > bit different. So it could do the same thing to up to 0x10000 elements of an
> > array at once. When will something like that be available in PC's?
> 
>   Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de> replied:-
> > That sounds like the Transputer idea.
> 
>   It is not. One Transputer is like one ordinary computer that does one thing
> at a time like a PC, as far as I know. The Connection Machine ran at more or
> less Commodore Pet cycle speed, but could operate on up to 0x10000 values at
> once. It had one common RAM and controller. It was intended to be used with an
> ordinary serial-type computer acting as its front-end.

The transputer boards that I saw uses ARRAYs of  trasputers (that's the use of 
these chips) so each chip can process a thing in parallel with the rest. The 
good part of the trasputers is the optimized communication, simple chips can 
use 20 Mb and can be communicated with 4 chips (to create the array). So the 
idea is parallel execution.

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