@jrose

The funny thing is: It's not as wrong as the architecture of late 1980s IBM-compatible personal computers would have one believe.

Examples:

On a 1980s #BBCMicro home computer with a Second Processor, the I/O processor was the primary boot processor and responsible for initializing the CPU. On a modern #RaspberryPi the GPU initializes and boots the CPU.

On many Big Iron systems there was a Console Processor, not even merely a graphics co-processor but a fully-fledged personal computer, that instructed the central processor; and I/O Processors for DASDs and stuff.

Even the Transputer architecture was designed to have a single front-end processor that would load the initial code into and boot the other processors.

And then there's the very important 80486 running Minix inside some PC architecture chipsets. (-:

#Transputer #AS400 #Minix #IME

I was testing KiCad 9, one hour to draw the schematic, five hours for the PCB, fifteen minutes with PCBway, waiting one week, and five hours to build the board (time wasted because my oscilloscope failed). I made two mistakes, but it works! #retro #transputer #pcbway #homebrew

Maybe it is just nostalgia, but I've written the required DOS software to run my basic transputer operating system from a real 1.44mb floppy. Edit, compile, and assemble completely inside my OS. The code is in my git. #retro #transputer

At the start of April, I bought two transputer boards for 25$ each on eBay. I've been building an ISA board to test 🤓 Today, after destroying two 74LS08, solving three disconected wires, and adding a decoupling capacitor, it finally says "nano" 🥳 #retro #homebrew #transputer

@harrysintonen
Ha, and i've a Computer with lots of computing performance where isn't any #doom port!
The power of my system is more than 5 times of a good 368 system!!!!

But what kind of system i've .. ?

It is a #Atari #atw800 #transputer system with 5 inmos T800 chips ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eTjlFQNxk8c

I could buy an Inmos B004 board in eBay, or I could collect enough information to make a PC/XT ISA board and test my two TRAM modules 🤓 #retro #transputer

#wennIchZeitHätte würde ich ja gerne mal nen Haufen recht minimale #riscv cores 2-3 Dimensional anordnen & auf die Kanten schnelle Dual Port RAM packen ... In der Praxis vermutlich ne 2-D FPGA Matrix in die das sinnvoll rein synthetisiert ist. Also so ein bischen wie die #transputer... Ohne konkretes Ziel einfach um dann den Design Space zu erforschen.... Ok doch ein Design Ziel wäre das sich Software dafür aus ner dependently typed Sprache sinnvoll erzeugen lässt :) ... Wenn ich Zeit hätte.

@keefeglise

No Linux at all. Trams use Occam.

(Your "for the teenagers" references are as nothing to how few people will get this one. (-:)

#Occam #Transputer #Rotterdam

I got a pair of transputer boards in an eBay offer. The 30mhz version of the Inmos T805 is pretty rare and these boards have 2 MB of RAM. I could have done marvels with so much memory. #retro #transputer

🌘 JavaScript 模擬器運行 1995 年作業系統
➤ 在瀏覽器中重溫 1990 年代的電腦體驗
✤ https://nanochess.org/transputer_emulator.html
這篇文章介紹了作者使用 JavaScript 移植的 Transputer 模擬器，最初是為其關於 Transputer 處理器的文章系列而用 C 語言編寫的。作者克服了 JavaScript 的一些限制，例如位元運算和記憶體管理，並巧妙地利用了新的 JavaScript 功能，如 Uint8Array 和 Float32/64Array，成功地在網頁瀏覽器中運行了 1996 年的自製作業系統。模擬器內建多種磁碟機，並包含 C 編譯器、組譯器，以及一些範例程式和 3D 繪圖工具。
+ 哇，這真是太酷了！能在瀏覽器中運行如此古老的系統，作者真是厲害。
+ 我對 Transputer 時代的電腦沒什麼印象，但這個模擬器讓我很好奇想去體驗一下。
#懷舊遊戲 #模擬器 #JavaScript #Transputer

And now you can test my transputer emulator in Javascript 😀 You can do almost all except running the 3D modeler and Ray Tracer because currrently there is no floating-point support. #transputer https://nanochess.org/transputer_emulator.html

I've ported my transputer emulator to Javascript without floating-point. JIT compilers in browsers are good but slower than the C version. I need to find a bug in emulation before releasing, the C compiler generates different asm code (JS at left, C at center) #retro #transputer

I can't believe you've forgotten already.

Source: https://www.transputer.net/obooks/oug/oug-nl04.pdf

#transputer

My transputer emulator now compiles in Visual Studio 2022 for Windows 10 (build 10566 onwards) and Windows 11. Both now support ANSI escape sequences for terminal, and function and arrow keys so you can use my visual editor. #retro #transputer https://github.com/nanochess/transputer

"My teen years: The transputer operating system" (Oscar Toledo G.)

https://nanochess.org/transputer_operating_system.html

#operatingsystem #transputer #os #devops #compiler #byo #diy #history #computer #programming

Released my full transputer OS, K&R C compiler and utilities (1996)

https://nanochess.org/transputer_operating_system.html

#HackerNews #transputer #OS #KRCcompiler #retrocomputing #open #source #technology #1996

If you read my article about my Pascal compiler for transputer, my Small-C compiler and early operating system, then hold on to your chair: I just have wrote about my full operating system and K&R C compiler for transputer 😉 #retro #transputer https://nanochess.org/transputer_operating_system.html

Teil eines Transputer-Systems, Eigenentwicklung an der TU München, ca. 1989. Zu sehen war das gute Stück in der Ausstellung am VCFe 7.0 (2006).

Das nächste VCFe ist am 3./4. Mai in München, die Ausstellerliste füllt sich: https://vcfe.org/D/Ausstellung.html
#VCFe #VCFe7.0 #VCFeHistory #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #transputer

Very rare Atari ATW800 Transputer Workstation on sale in France #atari #transputer

How is going your Saturday? I'm restoring my improved 1996 OS for transputer. It has a full K&R C compiler, 31 letters filenames, wildcards for copying files, subdirectories, multiple drives, and CD-ROM access. Testing with Walnut Creek Source Code CD ISO from archive_org. #retro #transputer