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Transputer is a word meaning transistor computer. It is officially spelled with lower case. It was made by British semiconductor firm INMOS Ltd. It was the first general purpose microprocessor intended to be used in parallel multiprocessor computers. It was to be a range of chips of varying power and cost, that were assembled to form a full computer. The name indicated the role that individual transputers had: they would be used as basic building blocks, as transistors had been.

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• Bibliography Relating to the INMOS Transputer

  http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Parallel/transputer.html
  Near 2,000 references. [Computer Science Bibliography Collection]

• INMOS Transputer

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INMOS_transputer
  Growing article, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]

• Ram's Transputer Page

  http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/
  Large resource, many topics: graphics; programming languages; artificial intelligence, robotics; operating systems, microkernels; parallel programming environments; transputers, system simulation; network protocols, load-balancing.

• The Atari Transputer Parallel Processing Computer

  http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/16bits/transputer.html
  Atari ATW800 Transputer workstation brief history, description, several photos. [Atari History Museum]

• The Transputer from INMOS; Later ST

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~ganswijk/chipdir/fam/transput/
  Books, INMOS technical notes, mail list, OCCAM language contacts. [Chip Directory]

• Transputer Emulator

  http://spirit.lboro.ac.uk/emulator.html
  Emulates one T414 transputer (no FPU or bit blit instructions), supplies file and terminal I/O services; purely interpretive (slow), easily portable C source code compiles on Macintosh and many Unix, BSD.

• Transputer Link Adapter PCMCIA Card

  http://www.hacker-technology.com/3387/27635.html
  Interfaces with INMOS style transputers using 10/20 MBits/sec asynchronous serial link. Decode modes available that mimic original INMOS ISA development board I/O ports, allows legacy software compatibility under DOS.

• Transputers, Helios, and More Fun

  http://www.michaelp.org/transputer/
  Enthusiast site on Atari Transputer Workstation (ATW), a.k.a. Abaq.

• WoTUG

  http://www.wotug.org/
  Forum supporting those applying Communicating Sequential Processes, CSP, model of parallel processing. Works on areas such as Java threads and high level language hardware compiling.

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