transputer internals (was Re: Pentium for Non-PC)

[Jules Richardson]

Tony Duell wrote:
>>> Which makes me wonder what would happen if you fed it an extended instruction
>>> that it didn't know how to deal with.
>> I don't know, but finding out is one of the first things on my list of 
>> things to do once I build some boards to plug mine into and find or make a 
>> transputer link interface (anyone got a C012 they wouldn't mind selling?). 
> 
> Are ISA transputer boards (B004, etc) that hard to find now?

I've only stumbled across one in the last four years, and that one was missing 
all the actual transputer modules from it and was just the ISA host board :-(

> And are they really that hard to find or 
> expenssive that you have to spend hundreds of dollars to get one?

I'd say so. I suppose the "supercomputer" associations tend to push the price 
up or something. Annoyingly we've had an offer of a complete Meiko CS1 along 
with the associated Microvax controlling host / graphical display, and nobody 
seems to be interested apart from me :(


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